Orecchiette con broccoli e salsiccia
We contemplated the name orecchiette as we made dinner tonight. Orecchie means “ears” in Italian, and the -ette suffix renders a word diminutive. So, orecchiette means “little ears”. One look at this rustic pasta and you will agree that its name suits it well. Linguistic humor is a good thing. Puns, spoonerisms, idioms, lexical ambiguity and …