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Review Italian kitchen vocabulary with the full list of words and their English translations.
Boost your vocabulary retention with these clever, association-rich memory tricks tailored for Italian learners.
Memory Trick: Think of a shiny COPPER lid covering your hot pot. Coperchio sounds like copper cover!
Cover the pot with a copper cover (coperchio)!
Memory Trick: Combine two words: scola (drain/strain) + pasta (pasta). It's literally the tool you use to strain pasta!
Scola the water from your pasta!
Memory Trick: Imagine a chef going MAD (matta) with a YELLOW (rello) wooden rolling pin to flatten pizza dough.
A mad yellow rolling pin flattening pizza dough!
Memory Trick: Scoop soup with a giant ladle without making a MESS on your TOWEL (mestolo).
Use a ladle so you don't make a mess!
Memory Trick: In Italian, cava means extracts and tappi means corks/caps. A tool that extracts corks!
Cava (extract) those tappi (corks)!
Memory Trick: Picture a frying pan lined with a soft PAD sizzling delicious food on the stove.
A sizzlin' pad-ella on the stove!
How kitchen vocabulary varies across Spain and Latin America.
Standard / Northern Italy: il lavandino / il lavello
Tuscany / Central Italy: l'acquaio
Northern / Standard Italy: lo strofinaccio
Tuscany: l'asciughino
Central / Southern Italy: il canovaccio
Standard Italy: il mestolo
Tuscany / Central Italy: il ramaiolo
Standard Italy: il grembiule
Lombardy / Northern Italy: la traversa / il grembiale
Standard Italy: la moka
Naples / Southern Italy: la cuccumella (traditional Neapolitan pot)
Standard Italy: la cappa
Italian Switzerland (Ticino): la cappa aspirante / l'aspiratore
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