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  • noun A type of spaghetti, with a rough texture, from the Veneto.

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Examples

  • The expression bigoli in salsa, literally bigoli in sauce, is used elastically to denote the traditional Venetian dish bigoli with sardines or anchovies as well as other preparations.

    Do Bianchi 2009

  • Like the Tuscan pinci or pici, the Veneto word bigoli is a generic term that denotes long, round artisanal noodles.

    Do Bianchi 2009

  • Hand-rolled pici - a thick-stranded pasta the Venetians call bigoli - is brawny and almost nutlike in flavor, served with brussels sprouts, bacon and Sicilian almonds.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • I wish there were a place to buy Venetian foods-even the big Italian specialty stores/delis in NYC like Agata & Valentina don't carry the foods I'm craving - bacala mantecato, sardele in saor, bigoli in salsa, and the rolls called 'rosete' which were a daily staple of mine with mortadella or prosciutto.

    Silk Screen Project 2004

  • Colorado, I eat bigoli all'uovo with sea urchin followed by tripe alla Vicentina: rarefied stuff for an erstwhile backwater.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Italian for counter service -- offering cozy, pasta-centric dishes like chestnut bigoli with lobster, sage and brown butter ($17).

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • This dish was almost always made by pairing bigoli and salt-cured sardines but the ingredients could change depending on the city and province and sometimes even the township.

    Do Bianchi 2009

  • As a result, bigoli were considered an adulterated product.

    Do Bianchi 2009

  • "Brown" bigoli - the buckwheat long noodles of Bassano and Treviso - went through a dark period because Italian law requires that only durum wheat flour be used to make pasta.

    Do Bianchi 2009

  • Christmas Eve, Ash Wednesday, and Good Friday have always been holidays for bigoli in salsa (literally, bigoli in sauce) in nearly every city of the Veneto.

    Do Bianchi 2009

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  • Thick-stranded, spaghetti-like pasta. Probably from Veneto region where it is traditionally eaten on Good Friday.

    November 23, 2007