Italian Food

2. a varied family of dumpling in Italian cuisine
5. Italian uncooked, unsmoked, and dry-cured ham
8. a type of pasta comprising a filling enveloped in thin pasta dough.
9. a frozen dessert of Italian origin
11. a traditional first course of a formal Italian meal
12. a type of pasta, possibly one of the oldest types, made of very wide, flat sheets.

1. thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice
3. hollow pasta in the shape of a smooth tube, sort of like a short straw
4. strained tomatoes.
5. a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base, topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients.
6. coffee-flavored dessert
7. a cured sausage consisting of fermented and air-dried meat, typically pork.
8. a northern Italian rice dish cooked with broth until it reaches a creamy consistency.
10. an Italian white bread, created in 1982 by a baker in Adria, in response to the popularity of French baguettes.