Introduction: If you are looking for a fast and tasty, restaurant like dinner, look no further, you found it. If you wonder what scampi is, well, scampi are tiny, lobster-like crustaceans with pale pink shells (also called langoustines). One traditional way of preparing them in Italy, is to sauté them with olive oil, garlic, onion and white wine. Italian cooks in the United States swapped shrimp for scampi, but kept both names. Thus the dish was born, along with inevitable variations like adding tomatoes, breadcrumbs, or, as Ms. Bastianich does in Lidia Bastianich�s authoritative book, �Lidia�s Italian-American Kitchen�, tarragon. Source: The New York TImes