Quick-to-cook Shrimp Scampi makes a tasty emergency meal. The original Italian dish used langoustines, small lobster-like crustaceans. In the United States, cooks swap shrimp for scampi. The classic ...

Tyler Florence's shrimp scampi recipe is one of his most popular dishes. A throwback to his days hosting 'Food 911', it's his take on the Italian classic. Best of all, it takes 40 minutes to make.

Shrimp scampi, taken literally, is slightly redundant. Scampi is the Italian word for langoustine, a small member of the lobster family with a pale pink shell that can grow to be up to 10 inches long.

Classic Italian American shrimp scampi, with its buttery white wine and garlic sauce, has a redundant name. Scampi means something close to ‘shrimp’ in Italian, so the name actually translates as ...

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You could say that shrimp scampi, like “chai tea,” is a dish so nice they named it twice. But really, it comes down to a mistranslation. The word “scampi,” in Italian, refers to a type of crustacean ...

The English language has a funny habit of doubling down on foreign words -- think "chai tea," literally meaning "tea tea," or "naan bread," meaning, you guessed it, "bread bread." While a bit humorous ...

(NEXSTAR) — What do you think of when you think of shrimp scampi? Depending who you ask, that term can mean many different things — or even sound like complete gibberish. While the dish is seemingly a ...