"As what does ""vermicelli"" literaly translate from the Italian?"
Vermicelli custard on top. Vermicelli Vermicelli (, lit. "little worms") is a traditional type of pasta round in section similar to spaghetti. In Italy vermicelli is slightly thicker than spaghetti, but in the United States it is slightly thinner. Vermicelli is also used to describe various types of thin noodles in Asia. As defined in Italy: In the United States, the National Pasta Association (which has no links with its Italian counterpart, the Unione Industriali Pastai Italiani) lists vermicelli as a thinner type of spaghetti. The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America defines "spaghetti" and "vermicelli" by
Vermicelli papal chamberlain ("camerlengo"), the Patriarch of Aquileia. In Martino's "Libro de arte coquinaria", there are several recipes for vermicelli, which can last two or three years ("doi o tre anni") when dried in the sun. In English, the Italian loanword "vermicelli" is used to indicate different sorts of long pasta shapes from different parts of the world but mostly from South or East Asia. In countries of the Indian Subcontinent, vermicelli is known by various local names such as, ""Sevai"" in Tamil and Malayalam]], "shavige" in Kannada, "sevalu" or "semiya" in Telugu, "semiya" in Tamil and Malayalam "shemai" in Bengali,