Torta al Testo
The Umbrian griddle bread cooked on a flat terracotta or iron disc, thick enough to split through the equator and pack with sausage, porchetta, or greens.
Tigelle, Crescia & Gnocco Fritto
Torta al Testo con Stracchino
The only cold-filling reading of the Umbrian griddle round: a slack Lombard fresh cheese smeared into a warm split torta al testo, the gradient doing the work.
Torta al Testo con Salsiccia
Grilled Norcian pork sausage, often with wilted bitter greens, packed warm into a split torta al testo: the Umbrian fresh-pork answer to the porchetta round.
Torta al Testo con Prosciutto
Paper-thin Norcian prosciutto crudo draped into a warm split torta al testo, the cured leg's salt against the bread's plain wheat, sold at the counter in Norcia.
Torta al Testo con Porchetta
Umbrian fennel-roasted whole pig sliced warm into a split torta al testo: dark crackling and moist herb-deep pork inside a thick griddle round.
Torta al Testo con Erbe
Long-sautéed wild bitter greens, hard-pressed dry, tucked warm into a split Umbrian griddle round: the forager's Friday reading of the torta al testo.
Tigelle con Salumi Misti
A basket of warm split crescentine and a board of Emilian cured pork, assembled disc by disc at the table: prosciutto, mortadella, salame, each its own bite.
Tigelle con Prosciutto
Tigelle con prosciutto: the warm iron-cooked Modenese disc, split hot and folded around a single sweet Emilian raw ham whose fat the heat just relaxes.
Tigelle con Pesto Modenese
Pounded pork lard with garlic, rosemary and Parmigiano smeared into a hot split tigella. The Emilian <em>pesto</em> is the paste, not a basil sauce, and the disc takes nothing else.
Tigelle con Lardo
A warm Modenese disc takes a translucent sheet of Emilian lardo from waxy to silken in seconds. Plain salt, plain bread, the mechanism is the heat.
Tigelle con Cunza
A pounded paste of lardo, garlic, and rosemary smeared into a warm split Modenese disc. Not a slice of fat but a spread of it, already seasoned and ready to soften.
Sciatt in Panino
Sciatt (buckwheat fritters filled with melted Bitto cheese) in bread; Alpine specialty.
Panino con Frico
Frico (crispy fried cheese wafer or soft cheese-potato dish) on bread; either version.
Gnocco Fritto
Gnocco fritto is the sandwich where the bread is the fried part: a leavened pillow puffed hollow in pork lard, torn open hot and stuffed with prosciutto, eaten at the table before it deflates.
Gnocco Fritto con Squacquerone
Gnocco fritto with soft squacquerone cheese.
Gnocco Fritto con Salumi
Gnocco fritto with assorted salumi.
Gnocco Fritto con Prosciutto
Gnocco fritto specifically paired with prosciutto; the fat cuts the salt.
Frico Croccante in Panino
Crispy frico on bread; crunchy cheese.
Erbazzone
Savory pie with Swiss chard, spinach, Parmigiano-Reggiano, and lard; eaten like a sandwich when folded.
Crescia Sfogliata
Flaky, layered flatbread cooked on testo; filled with prosciutto, greens, sausage.
Crescia con Salsiccia e Spinaci
Crescia with sausage and spinach.
Crescia con Prosciutto e Rucola
Crescia with prosciutto and arugula.
Crescentina (Tigelle)
A palm-sized leavened disc cooked between hot terracotta plates, split warm along its seam and packed by hand with lard paste, cured pork, and soft cheese: the Modena crescentina.
Borlengo
The borlengo is batter swirled across a hot copper sole until it sets crisp as a wafer, brushed with cunza, lard pounded with garlic and rosemary, and folded in the hand in the Modenese hills.