Animals in Italian
Avoid the sting as you tell us that un'ape is this insect.
The Bee
“Joy of Cooking” instructions for making this cherry dessert: “Standing back, ignite with a long lighted match
cherries jubilee
Nabokov’s novels all began on 3×5 these, which he kept under his pillow in case of inspiration
an index card
The first of his cowboy hats was called the boss of the plains; Carlsbad, the most popular model, followed
Stetson
Jazz musicians & jockeys helped give New York City this nickname
the Big Apple
If you're called un asino, you're either a fool or this animal
a donkey
Henri Charpentier is said to have created this dessert crepes dish by accident; the dish was a flaming success
Crepe Suzette
In 2009 this, on which Cormac McCarthy produced 5 million words, sold for over $250,000 at auction
a typewriter
The act of herding cattle; death was sometimes called “the last” one
the roundup
If you’re under this, you’re at the circus
the big top
That's the scariest ragno, one of theses, I've ever seen! Dont tell Signorian Muffet.
A spider
You can make a flaming version of this tex-mex dish whose name means “little sashes”
fajitas
At London’s Charles Dickens museum, visitors can handle Dickens’ own pen of this type
a fountain pen
In 1859 this Nevada town sprung up virtually overnight with the discovery of the Comstock Lode
Virginia City
Digit also known as the hallux
the big toe
Un cane is this; ready for walkies?
A dog
This dessert, cake & ice cream browned in the oven, can be flambeed for a dramatic presentation
Baked Alaskan
Raymond Chandler composed screenplays by talking into this machine, a brand name copyrighted in 1907
a dictaphone
In 1867 Joseph McCoy set up a shipping yard in Abilene, Kansas to hold Texas cattle arriving on this trail
Chisolm Trail
In France this feature of the night sky is known as “le casserole”
the Big Dipper
It really gets me that Una Capra is one of theses farm animals
a goat.
Brennan’s in New Orleans says that this flaming fruity dessert is the most requested item on its menu
Bananas Foster
Steinbeck was obsessed with these; the Mongol 2 3/8 model came closest to the perfect point
a pencil
As the result of an injury suffered in his first gunfight in 1876, he began using a cane & often used it as a weapon
Bat Masterson
Rhyming nickname of Boston’s Interstate 93 construction project
the Big Dig