Panino con Robiola
Robiola (soft, creamy cheese, various types—Roccaverano DOP is goat's milk); spreadable.
Robiola (soft, creamy cheese, various types—Roccaverano DOP is goat's milk); spreadable.
Robiola di Roccaverano DOP (raw goat's milk); tangy, creamy.
Salted, aged ricotta (firm, grateable) on bread; salty, crumbly.
Fresh ricotta from Lazio; mild, creamy, slightly grainy.
Raschera DOP (semi-hard cheese from Alpine pastures); mild, buttery.
Ragusano DOP (stretched-curd cheese aged in caves); caciocavallo-like, complex.
Meat (often beef rolls—braciole) from Neapolitan ragù (slow-cooked tomato sauce) on bread.
Red radicchio (especially Treviso IGP's long, tapered variety) grilled or raw on sandwich.
Treviso radicchio specifically; bitter, slightly sweet when grilled.
Mixed boiled organ meats (quarume) in broth-dipped bread; similar to Florentine lampredotto.
Quartirolo DOP (soft, tangy, fresh cow's milk cheese); delicate flavor.
Provolone del Monaco DOP (aged, sharp provolone from the Lattari Mountains); complex, piquant.
Provola (smoked mozzarella-style cheese) on bread; smoky flavor.
Specifically smoked provola; more intense smoke.
Tuscan DOP prosciutto, saltier and more assertive than Parma, on unsalted Tuscan bread.
Prosciutto di Sauris IGP (lightly smoked); unique among Italian prosciutti.
San Daniele DOP prosciutto (sweeter, softer than Parma, guitar-shaped); aged in Alpine air.
DOP Parma ham; aged minimum 12 months, sweet and nutty, on bread or in piadina.
Prosciutto di Norcia IGP (slightly smokier, aged in mountain air) on bread.
Wild boar prosciutto; gamey, intense cured meat.
Fresh, lightly salted sheep's milk cheese; mild, milky.
Presnitz (sweet rolled pastry with nuts and dried fruit) sometimes eaten sandwich-style.
Umbrian porchetta (wild fennel, garlic, pepper) on bread; aromatic.
The porchetta di Ariccia is the Castelli Romani reading of roast pork — a boned pig packed with garlic, black pepper, and rosemary, roasted to shattering crackling — the EU-protected reference, on plain bread that does nothing.