pecorino

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  • Or for the same price, try the rustic beef stew; the meat is tenderly braised in a mild tomato sauce that seeps into pecorino-flecked polenta below. —  Miami New Times | Complete Issue
  • It was a top-flight meal, heavy with plates upon plates of antipasti and different varieties of aged pecorino, and topped off with, for me, a ricotta cake that was one of the more delectable things I'd ever tasted. —  Weddingbee
  • My favorite was the crostini with edamame (or fava beans) with ricotta, pecorino, lemon and mint: —  Albion Cooks
  • The selection varies, but it usually contains prosciutto, salami, coppa and bresaola and dry cheeses grana, parmesan and pecorino. —  The News Tribune Blogs
  • On top of that: guanciale, onions, garlic, and pecorino romano emulsified with butter, all of which was tossed with pasta cooked in bacon water. —  Serious Eats
 

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  1. Italian, of ewes, pecorino, from pecora, ewe, sheep, from Latin, cattle, pl. of pecus; see peku- in Indo-European roots.
 

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