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English citations of zucchino
Noun: alternative form of zucchini[edit]
- 1947, The New Yorker, volume 23, page 21:
- After a prolonged session with a cookbook, she selected two or three recipes she considered promising, went to her grocer’s, and read off her list of ingredients: a quarter pound of white seedless grapes, three oranges, two tart apples, three cloves, the breast of a chicken, a can of pigs’ feet, a spring onion, a zucchino, three leeks, and a half pint of dried black-eyed peas. The grocer paled as he listened. “Lady,” he said, “what are you making—a painting?”
- 1962, Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and Public Health Laboratory Service, page 188:
- Two members of another family became ill after eating a zucchino—a marrow-like plant grown in their garden; a bitter ether-soluble substance was extracted from a sample of the vegetable (Frizelle 1961).
- 1986, Keats-Shelley Review, page 87:
- A zucchino is a small marrow, but there can be no connection with Shelley’s ‘The Zucca’, which was not drafted until 1821.
- 1997 May 12, Andrew Willett, “Re: Cauldrons?”, in rec.food.historic (Usenet), message-ID <3377a6f1.4938032@nntp.netcom.net.uk>:
- A marrow is a larger version of a zucchino/courgette ,green skinned with pale flesh-if you leave the zucchini on the plant rather than cutting them at 6" or so as normal you will get a marrow, though marrows are better grown from a proper marrow variety.
- 1998, Howard Jacobson, No More Mister Nice Guy, →ISBN, page 134:
- It was their garden in Dulwich, but the light was Italian. In the dream, Frank felt Italian himself. He was back in a mobster shirt, having Italian thoughts, sucking in the light as though he were an Italian vegetable, a melanzana or a zucchino, absorbing what was rightfully his.
- 1999 February 28, Nina Baltes, “Re: UK views on GM foods and unplanned body modifications”, in rec.arts.bodyart (Usenet), message-ID <36d9a1ba.109097630@News.CIS.DFN.DE>:
- >Fancy a GM tomato? / As a matter of fact, yes! I'd much rather have a decent tasting tomato than the watery crap that you can get here. / The organically grown tomatoes don't necessarily taste better (my experience), and I can't grow my own. / The GM tomato can be harvested ripe because the cell walls do not degrade so fast. / Remember, they knocked something out, they didn't add anything! / So tell me, what is the difference between this and knocking out the green color out of a zucchino by conventional breeding?
- 1998 March 9, Kyle & Elisabetta, “Re: ristoranti”, in it.hobby.cucina (Usenet), message-ID <3504A3F1.54116244@firenze.com>:
- The meal began with marinated swordfish on salad, followed by delicately prepared vegetables fried in / tempura batter, steamed rana pescatrice with a zucchino in a green sauce, and scampi with tomato mayonnaise.
- 2000 December 20, Peter Moylan, “Re: Potatoe[sic] Pie Recipe”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), message-ID <91qds1$ci1$3@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>:
- Meanwhile, go to the refrigerator and see what's there. Typically I'll add a diced carrot, a zucchino, a quarter of red capsicum and a quarter of green capsicum, one or two button squash, a stick of celery, a few mushrooms, and perhaps one or two other things that I've forgotten for the moment; but it all depends on what you have on hand.
- 2002 November 4, Peter J Ross, “Re: Bukakke Linux not too much fun---------->>>>>>> :(”, in soc.men (Usenet), message-ID <a0qbsuoqa1uklp601gg9q6drno29a2ac6e@4ax.com>:
- >>At least they didn't do anything weird with a potato. / > / >Or a turnip. / Or a zucchino.
- 2007 September 28, Dorothy J Heydt, “Re: why space opera won't fly (long)”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <Jp1pqJ.3uE@kithrup.com>:
- >The OED isn't particularly helpful: the earliest citation / >for <courgette> is from 1931, for <zucchini> from 1929. / What's the date on <vegetable marrow>? Which is what a zucchino grows into, if you turn your back on it?
- 2007 October 11, Dorothy J Heydt, “Re: Food revisited”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <Jpq048.LnJ@kithrup.com>:
- A while back, if I remember correctly, we were discussing zucchini, and I mentioned occasionally cooking one zucchino for my dinner. There were some questions as to whether that was really the proper singular.
- 2008 October 11, Wayne Boatwright, “Re: Soups On!!!!”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <Xns9B34867B49D30wayneboatwrightatgma@69.16.185.247>:
- Artusi's Minestrone (variation) / […] / 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, finely minced / A zucchino and a potato, diced / 1/2 cup of minced, seeded, and peeled sun-ripened or canned plum tomatoes
- 2015 June 18, Will Parsons, “Re: the singular of "biscotti"”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), message-ID <slrnmo48hr.3g6.varro@anukis.local>:
- > What about "zucchini"? / Usually one is served "zucchini" as a side dish, or as a component of some other dish, but one is seldom served a single "zucchino", so the issue is not likely to arise.
Italian citations of zucchino
Noun: "German-speaking Swiss"[edit]
- 2013 May 22, “Zucchini si diventa”, in maternage mum[1]:
- L'idea dello “zucchino” che abbiamo noi ticinesi è ovviamente un bel po' stereotipata, cose tipo sandali con le calze per darvi un'idea.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)