"Strong bread." A solid cake of dried fruits, nuts including almonds, cloves, cinnamon and candied fruits and candied peel, honey and sultanas all packed tightly. Originally a winter, particularly Christmas, treat from Sienna, it is now widely available.
"Yellow bread." A version of panforte made with honey and nuts, including hazelnuts, walnuts and pine nuts.
Long-lasting ships bisctuits rather like hard tack. Perfect provision fot sailors who went to see for months at a time.
A sort of thin crêpe or pancake of chickpea (US: garbanzo bean) flour fried in olive oil called farinata, almost like polenta, with onions, served in crisp slabs and ending up as a sort of onion tart.
"Bread with spleen." A soft roll or bun from Palermo with spleen and Caciocavallo cheese and scattered with sesame seeds.
