La Francesina

My appreciation for trippa in all its wondrous forms continues, this week with a dish called francesina. For four euros, I can enjoy a teeny bottle of wine (about one and half or two glasses' worth), and a bowl full of trippa stewed with tomatoes, mirepoix, herbs, and carciofe, doused with piccante and salsa verde and served along with a large piece of bread to soak it all up.

From the Mercato Nuovo, the stand near Via Pellicheria.

Lampredotto

At the Cascine market, there is a very special lampredotto stand. It doesn't look much different than the others. It is constructed of the same metal carriage, the same plastic signs, the same simmering pots and displays of schiaccata and salume. But it if you seek it out, if you manage to pick it out of the crowd of stands and bustling shoppers, you will be rewarded by the most delicious tripa (boiled stomach) sandwich in your life.

You can find me there, every Tuesday at eleven fifteen. Every. Single. Tuesday.

Cut it

Pile it

Salt it and sauce it (piccante and verde)

Dunk it

Devour it