Italian staples, such as pizza and pasta, are eaten as commonly as beef.

* Fregula, a pasta from Sardinia, consists of pellets that are larger than couscous and toasted.

Main meat courses are often served with vegetables, along with potatoes, rice or pasta.

Interspersed in his official correspondence with Parma are requests for local delicacies triffole ( truffles ), salame, robiola cheeses, and agnolini ( kind of pasta ).

Noodles, made from wheat flour and egg, are usually thicker than the Italian flat pasta.

Macaroni noodles normally do not contain eggs, ( although they may be an optional ingredient ) and are normally cut in short, hollow shapes ; however, the term refers not to the shape of the pasta, but to the kind of dough from which the noodle is made.

In modern Italian there are three words corresponding to the English word ' soup ': zuppa, which is used in the sense of tomato soup, or fish soup ; minestra, which is used in the sense of a more substantial soup such as a vegetable soup, and also for ' dry ' soups, namely pasta dishes ; and minestrone, which means a very substantial or large soup or stew, though the meaning has now come to be associated with this particular dish.

Whole grains and whole-grain products such as brown rice and buckwheat pasta ( soba ), a variety of cooked and raw vegetables, beans and bean products, mild natural seasonings, fish, nuts and seeds, mild ( non-stimulating ) beverages such as bancha twig tea and fruit are recommended.

Matzot are used not only by themselves but in several roles in Passover cuisine where they can substitute for flour or pasta.

In English-speaking countries, where Ashkenazic culture dominates, matzo balls and matzo farfel are widely used in soups and as pasta, as well as matzah meal being used in baked goods such as cakes.

Fresh pasta was traditionally produced by hand, sometimes with the aid of simple machines, but today many varieties of fresh pasta are also commercially produced by large scale machines, and the products are broadly available in supermarkets.

Some pasta dishes are served as a first course in Italy because the portion sizes are small and simple.

Simple sauces like pesto are ideal for long and thin strands of pasta while tomato sauce combines well with thicker pastas.

While pastas are, most typically, made from unleavened doughs, the use of yeast-raised doughs are also known for at least nine different pasta forms.

Delicate sauces are preferred for fresh pasta in order to let the pasta take front stage.

Fresh pastas do not expand in size after cooking ; therefore, one and a half pounds of pasta are needed to serve 4 people generously.

This pasta is often served simply with butter sauce and thinly sliced truffles that are native to this region.

Alloying lead and tin with antimony improves the properties of the alloys which are used in solders, bullets and plain bearings.

The small bullets are generally designed to tumble after penetration.

Conventional textile based ballistic vests are designed to stop soft nosed bullets but offer little defence from knife attacks.

Crossbows can also be adapted to shoot lead bullets or stones, in which case they are called stone-bows.

In these cases, the front line, FEBA, FLOT and FLET are almost conceptual ideas ; and the term ' front line ' has come to refer more to any place where bullets and bombs are flying-or are likely to fly.

Many Burmese living in rural areas still sport tattoos like this – they are believed to protect against bullets and snake bites.

Conversely, rifle bullets can pierce light armor and are easier to shoot accurately, but even a carbine such as the Colt M4 is larger and / or longer than a submachine gun, making it harder to maneuver in close quarters.

Primers, cartridges, bullets and reloading equipment are available without permit.

Measurement of the weight is the easiest, and bullets that are out of round can be detected by rotating the bullet while measuring with a micrometer.

This is because the bullets are used one time, and the case lasts for many reloadings.

Cast bullets are also the cheapest bullets to buy, though generally only handgun bullets are available in this form.

For shooters who would like to shoot cast bullets, aftermarket barrels are generally available for these models with conventional rifling, and the cost of the barrel can generally be recouped in ammunition savings after a few thousand rounds.

Soft lead bullets are generally used in handguns with velocities of 1000 ft / s ( 300 m / s ) or lower, while harder cast bullets may be used, with careful powder selection, in rifles with velocities of 2000 ft / s ( 600 m / s ) or slightly more.

Further complicating this are the requirements for controlled expansion bullets ( see terminal ballistics ), which require a tight bond between the jacket and the core.

Premium expanding bullets are, with match grade bullets, at the top tier in expense.

`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

( C ) Decisions of a general kind are made by the central command.

As a creative enterprise, its abilities are primarily in `` swallowing '' creative enterprises developed outside its own organization ( an ability made possible by us, and almost mandatory ).

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

Since the recognition of Israel as a nation state, claims are made in many cases which identify the claimant as a member of the new body politic.

As more men and women are made capable of living up to the challenge of decency the chances are improved that the pattern of predisposition prevailing in positions of strength in future crises can be favorably affected.

At least I should like them to know that I know these discounts are being made.

Even with all possible precaution, homecomings are usually rather cruel and sad, and only the perpetually ebullient and the continually optimistic are made happy by them.

Sir -- We are writing in reference to a recent `` suggestion '' made to the staff of the Public Health Nursing Service of Jersey City ( registered professional nurses with college background and varying experiences ).

It will determine the amount of money to be spent by the college and will certify this amount to the board of freeholders, which `` shall appropriate in the same manner as other appropriations are made by it the amount so certified and the amount shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as moneys appropriated for other purposes ''.

`` See, Argiento, if you control the way these folds are bunched, like this, or made to flow, you can enrich the body attitudes.

SBA loans, which may be made to small manufacturers, small business pools, wholesalers, retailers, service establishments and other small businesses ( when financing is not otherwise available to them on reasonable terms ), are to finance business construction, conversion, or expansion ; ;

Participation loans are those made jointly by the SBA and banks or other private lending institutions.

Direct loans are those made by SBA alone.

Three distinct classes of loans are made available to farmers' cooperatives by the Banks for Cooperatives: Commodity loans, operating capital loans, and facility loans.

Once we have made clear that we are genuinely concerned with a country's development potential, we can be blunt in suggesting the technical conditions that must be met for development to occur.

Requests are made by the motor pool along with any necessary cooperation from the agencies to which assignments of cars will be made.