Word To Use Today: calzone.

Have you ever thought how much easier it would be to eat pizza if someone had thought of folding the thing in half and sticking the edges together to make it into a pie?

Well, someone has, and it's called a calzone.


(This calzone has been fried, but they're more usually baked.)

There's a recipe for a calzone HERE.

Now, this is all very well, you may be thinking, but is there some good reason for featuring a random food dish in The Word Den?

Well, yes, there is. 

And it's here:


photo by Oxfordian Kissuth

Word To Use Today: calzone. This word, charmingly, is the Italian for trouser leg or stocking. It comes from the word calzoni, trousers.