Panino con Verdure Grigliate
Grilled vegetables (zucchini, eggplant, peppers) on bread with olive oil.
Grilled vegetables (zucchini, eggplant, peppers) on bread with olive oil.
Ventricina (spreadable or sliceable salami with sweet and hot peppers); varies by area—soft in Abruzzo, firmer in Molise.
Ventricina from Vasto; sliceable, with large pork pieces visible.
Soft, spreadable ventricina from Teramo province.
Very fresh, unsalted sheep's cheese; the first stage of pecorino-making.
Tuna (usually canned, in olive oil) on bread.
Tuna with white cannellini beans, olive oil, and onion; Tuscan salad as sandwich.
Tuna from the Favignana mattanza (traditional tuna hunt); premium quality.
Toma Piemontese DOP (semi-hard cow's milk cheese); varies from mild to sharp with age.
Head cheese (coppa di testa) Ligurian style on bread.
Raw hand-cut beef in a panino makes freshness the entire build, dressed at the last second and met by a deliberately quiet bread. Piedmont's carne cruda, the parent of carpaccio, set on a roll.
Taralli (ring-shaped savory crackers) sometimes crushed on sandwiches for crunch; or eaten alongside.
Taleggio DOP (washed-rind, soft, pungent, creamy cheese from Val Taleggio); strong aroma, mild taste.
A whole supplì set into bread: the Roman fried rice croquette, cooked in tomato and ragù around a mozzarella core that pulls into a long telephone-cord string. Starch inside starch.
Apple strudel as sweet sandwich filling; unusual but possible.
Stracciatella (shredded mozzarella in cream, burrata's interior) on bread.
Cool stracciatella, the cream-loosened curd from inside a burrata, against two or three whole salt-cured anchovies on grilled ciabatta. Milk meeting brine, two finished things on one piece of bread.
Stracchino/crescenza (soft, spreadable, mild cheese) on bread.
Grilled lamb or goat intestines wrapped around green onion, on bread; intense, charred street food.
Smoked speck from Sauris; local specialty.
Speck Alto Adige PGI on dark rye: pork leg dry-cured with juniper and bay, then cold-smoked below 20 degrees over beech. Firm, resinous, alpine, and nothing like a soft prosciutto.
Soprassata toscana is a cooked pork head cheese, not the southern salame its near-twin name suggests: a jellied terrine sliced thick onto saltless Tuscan bread.
Soppressata is one word for a dozen pressed salami, so the panino changes its meat at every regional line: Calabrian chilli, Lucano fennel, soft Veneto consa. The press is the only constant.
Soppressata molisana is a pressed pork salame from premium cuts, its casing wiped with orange peel, even-tempered on a plain loaf. Recorded as a Kingdom of Naples delicacy since the 1800s.