Panino con Vitello Tonnato
Thin-sliced veal with tonnato sauce (tuna-mayonnaise-caper-anchovy) on bread; classic Piedmontese dish.
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Thin-sliced veal with tonnato sauce (tuna-mayonnaise-caper-anchovy) on bread; classic Piedmontese dish.
Cured goat leg shaped like a violin; held and sliced like playing a violin, intense gamey flavor.
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.
Cured whole-cut Favignana bluefin, not flaked: ventresca belly or firmer tarantello on plain bread under its own packing oil, from the fixed-net tonnara this Sicilian island once ran every spring.
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.
Alba's carne cruda all'albese given a roll: knife-cut raw Fassona piemontese, the double-muscled Langhe breed lean enough to eat raw, dressed at the last second with oil, lemon.
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.
Lamb or kid intestine wound tight around a spring onion, charred over open charcoal by a stigghiularu, then packed into a plain roll with salt, pepper, and lemon.
Sauris is the highest village in Friuli, and its speck is smoked over beechwood only -- no juniper, no piney bite. The panino is built to keep that clean, sweet smoke audible.
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.