By Paul Barbano

Italian food can have funny names such as spaghetti, plural of spaghetto, meaning string, twine, or manicotti from the Italian, plural of manicotto, muff or sleeve, because it is a sleeve stuffed with cheese. Penne pasta got its name because it looks like the quill or a pen.

Orzo, meaning barley, because it looks like a barleycorn, and vermicelli which translates as little worms. But none of this prepared us for the whispered rumor of the oddest Italian food yet. My aunt Mary married uncle Hank, who was Marchigiano, from the Marche region of Italy. 

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