Italian Cuisine Vocabulary

noun a dish of raw meat or fish thinly sliced or pounded and served as an appetizer

• The restaurant served a delicious plate of beef carpaccio as an appetizer.
• I tried the carpaccio at that new Italian place, it was so good!
• I could go for some carpaccio right now, it's bomb.
• His words were like a delicate carpaccio, thinly sliced and full of flavor.

noun a type of coffee-based dessert

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• The affogato is a traditional Italian dessert made by pouring hot espresso over a scoop of vanilla gelato.
• Let's grab an affogato at the cafe down the street.
• I could really go for an affogato right about now.
• The bittersweet taste of the affogato mirrored the complexities of life.