Charcuterie
Charcuterie, derived from the words "meat" and "cooked", literally means devotion to preparing meat products in this language.
French
The name for this popular food featuring meat, beans, and rice, literally means "little donkey".
Burrito
Kronos
Rapper. Drive-by shooting. 24. Big Poppa.
Notorious B.I.G.
In this 1995 film, Kevin Spacey plays Verbal Kint, a small time con man who is interrogated through a convoluted story of events that led him and his criminal companions to a boat in the Port of Los Angeles as authorities try to capture the mysterious crime lord, Keyser Söze.
The Usual Suspects
Even though this word means "pork butcher", it is also the word for the person who practices the art of charcuterie.
Charcutier
This actress played Adam Sandler's wife in Spanglish, an almost romantic comedy about a mother and daughter who live with a wealthy chef's family for the summer and learn English, as well as a few Americanisms, along the way.
Tea Leoni
Vlad the Impaler, sometimes associated with this mythical creature, ruled Wallachia several times in the 1400s, and tales of his gruesome style of killing Saxons spread across Europe in books with woodcuts depicting his deadly horrors.
Dracula
Composer. Mysterious illness. 35. Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music).
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It feels like this actor has appeared in every major mafia movie ever made. His most notable roles include Michael Corleone, Tony Montana, and Benjamin Ruggiero, just to name a few.
Al Pacino
Historically, this type of meat was the exclusive focus of the production of charcuterie for centuries, until a French Guild was formed to produce a variety of salted and dried meats.
Pork
Watch out for what Spanish speakers call "little fly". This pesky insect loves stale water, humidity, and passing along diseases such as malaria.
Mosquito
La Chupacabra
Actor. Car crash. 24. Rebel Without a Cause.
James Dean
It makes sense that this Italian-American director was raised in Little Italy in Queens, considering that he later sat behind the camera for "Gangs of New York", "Casino", "Goodfellas", and "The Departed".
Martin Scorese
As one of the most popular cured meats in the world, this Italian meat is both salt-cured and air-dried before being sliced into extremely thin and delicate pieces before being served.
Prosciutto
This U.S. state, which means "snowy" in Spanish, was historically a part of Mexico until they were ceded to the U.S. at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848.
Nevada
Based on Michael Crighton's Eaters of the Dead, Antonio Banderas joins a group of Viking warriors in this action film to take on the Wendel, bear-like cannibals who attack whenever mist settles over the village.
The 13th Warrior
Singer/actress. Plane crash. 22. Queen of the Damned.
Aaliyah
In 2007, Denzel Washington starred in this movie based loosely on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a drug smuggler who trafficked heroin on U.S. military planes returning from the Vietnam War.
American Gangster
Cured meats aren't the only offering on traditional charcuterie boards. Take this for example - this French paste, pie, or loaf is made out of forcemeat and often spread on crackers or toasted bread.
Pâté
Spanish for "watchman", this word was adopted long ago by Americans to signify those who attempt to take the law into their own hands.
Vigilante
During the first millennium B.C.E., Osiris and this goddess were the most widely worshipped of all Egyptian gods. Considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, she was the actual mother of Horus, and was best known for helping the dead cross into the afterlife.
Isis
Politician. Assassination. 42. Bobby.
Robert F. Kennedy
This Chicago-based Prohibition-Era gangster and rival to Al Capone was incarcerated three times before his 21st birthday. Famously, seven of his men were gunned down during the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.
Bugsy Moran