Etymologies
- From Italian (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mary liked gorgonzola, is just not a way to get me into a book.”
“I have never had devil’s club before but gnocchi in gorgonzola sauce is really good.”
Recipe for Devil’s Club Gnocchi (or Spinach Gnocchi) with Gorgonzola Sauce
“The perfect combination of salty and sweet are given by pears and four cheeses stuffed inside big purse-shaped pasta (fiocchi), floating in what can be called a gorgonzola and walnut soup.”
“At first bite, the gorgonzola is a nice, rich tease before the heady, thick (but not too thick) gravy sauce permeates your palate.”
“Her exaggerations and inaccuracies are obvious when in the descriptions of the fig flatbread she describes the "goat cheese" There is no goat cheese, it is gorgonzola which is related to bleu.”
“There's a small window of opportunity to book by email over a few days in October, prompting a flurry of obsequious reservation requests from millions of foodies to try delights such as gorgonzola moshi and floral candyfloss”
“I do like gorgonzola, so I guess the stinky cheese answer is yes.”
“For more casual eating there is a Panini menu with roast Porchetta ($16) or slow-roasted short ribs and gorgonzola ($18).”
“Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The "Tavern Burger," pictured here, comes with gorgonzola cheese, red onion, garlic aioli and a side of french fries.”
“I crave their summer gazpacho, fried olives, pizza with figs, gorgonzola and balsamic vinegar, the seared salmon, and lastly ... the "bostini" trifle -- that 1200 calorie extravaganza that is not to be missed.”
The Huffington Post: Alexis Swanson Traina: So You're Visiting Napa for the Weekend: Day 2
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gorgonzola’.
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The Cheese Connoisseur's List of...
Names of cheeses from around the world, blatantly stolen from every source available to me.
"A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with one eye." - Jean Anthelme Brillat-S...edam, cheddar, jack, monterrey jack, mozzarella, mozzarella di bufala, mozzarella fior d..., mozarella affumicata, scamorza, parmesan, gorgonzola, emmenthal and 256 more...
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cheese
everything cheese,expressions like
stiff cheddar,turophile's heaven
a work in progresscheddar, cheddared, cheddaring, cheedam, cheese straw, cheesed off, cheesed, cheesie, cheeseparing, cheese tree, cheesewood, cheesier and 352 more...
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blue
bluejeans, blue sky, blue angel, blue heaven, blue jay, blue cheese, blue ridge, blue ribbon, blue print, blue rinse, bluestocking, blue shift and 50 more...
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National Cheese Emporium
You know....what you order when you're feeling peckish!
venezuelan beaver..., cornish yarg, tilsit, caerphilly, bel paese, red windsor, stilton, ementhal, gruyere, norweigan jarlsburg, lipta, lancashire and 33 more...
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Tip-Top Toponymic
Place names that have entered general speech. Toponyms that interest me in other ways are on Place Names Of Distinction
hamburger, wiener, finlandisation, vernissage, hackney, venetians, bohemian, anti-macassar, berliner, cravat, calico, serendipity and 113 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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chefjulianin's Words
high, ice, recipe, bear, bare, lady, food, identity, sudden, spooky, away, cook and 142 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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Favorite Tangible Object Words
Trimming the "Chained Bear's Favorites" list so I don't crash people's computers... like my own...
castanets, whaup, budgie, wallabies, ring-wraith, hobbit, chinchilla, guano, merganser, phalarope, phalarope, curlew and 138 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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beautiful words
quench, metropolitan, dollop, cucumber, aesthetic, superfluous, gastronomy, nymph, obsequious, serendipity, champagne, gossamer and 125 more...
Tweets
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misterpolly Named after the town where it is (wrongly) thought to be made. Nice sound though ...gorgon.
"James, set loose the gorgonzola." Dec 19, 2007