Desserts - cassata, cannoli,zabaglione, granita and marzipan - come intotheir own in Sicily, while Sardinia is famous for itsspit-roasted piglet.Coffee and wine are, of course,magnificent countrywide.
Recall any movie with an "ethnic" cast, the scenes offamilies sitting around a dinner table, digging into plates of chowmein, collard greens, cannoli, baklava, whatever.
On the other end of that scale, we have the tiniest particle ever detected, a proton travelling so close to the speed of light it got squished into a pancake.