fettuccine and feta – slices

After you roll out the pasta dough, you fold it and then slice it into ribbons to make fettuccine. Those slices name the pasta from the Italian slice, fetta, which unexpectedly gives us the famously Greek sheep cheese, feta. Slice in Greek is pheta, but the source (gasp) is Italian. Sliced cheese is be feta cheese, Often served in slices. feta cheese is just sliced cheese.

Likewise, mozzarella is just slices which are little because of the ending ella. It comes from mozzare, to cut off, and earlier from Latin mutius the source of mutilate.

Another Italian slice is tagliare, which gives us another pasta tagliatelle. It comes from the Latin taliare to cut, where we happen also get retail. It’s related to our word for grocer, the person who buying foods in gross. The retailer then cuts them into smaller parts to resell.

 

A German slice is a schnitz and little slice is a schnitzel. The Wiener schnitzel is the well-known from Wien, or is we know it Vienna, Austria. That town also manages to give the infamous hot dog nicknamed Wiener shortened from Wiener wurst, Vienna Sausage.

Lastly, the Dutch have famous fried balls of dough called aebleskivers, apple slices, which once were the essential ingredient.

1. feta
2. fettuccine
3. mozzarella
4. tagliatelle
5. Wiener schnitzel
6. aebleskivers

Related

1. cutlet
2. tonkatsu
3. poke – hawaiian slice
4. smorgasbord – smörgås, “slice of bread