All About Pica. Eating and desiring ice is directly tied to another behavioral symptom of iron deficiency, a strange appetite disorder called pica. Whenever it surfaces, pica fills you with the desire to ingest substances that normally aren't viewed as food. Paper, wood, and dirt are regularly gnawed on by sufferers.
you voted. 1  The Italian word for grandmother is nonna, which can be used as a nickname. 2  the italian way of saying grandmother or grandma is nonna and it's pronounciation is nohn-nah notice the letter h.speek it out with a little of the h in it.  3 Nonna is the Italian word for grandmother. I am not sure about grandma, but I think is nonnina. You may also try the dear grandmother, which is also colloquial: cara nonna.
Cheese is sliced at DiPalo's in Little Italy. Many people think that the massive wheels of Grana Padano, the semi-aged hard Italian cheese, are maybe a cheaper knock-off of better known Parmigiana-Reggiano, says Lou DiPalo, part of the fourth generation to run DiPalo's Fine Foods in Little Italy.n Italian, Grana is the word for grain, and it's actually the word for a type of cheese whose tiny crags and crannies look a little like specks of grain, he says. So Parmigiano-Reggiano, says DiPalo, is actually a type of grano.