All around the island, round, flattish loaves such as Monreale bread, sesame seeded loaves or simple focaccia are split in half and filled with the most delicious combinations. These ‘sandwiches’ used to be poor man’s food and could be taken to the fields for lunch. Now cafés and wine bars such as the Enoteca Rossorubino in Cefalù serve them cut into wedges with wonderful local wines and olives
Here, Francsco and Mimmo from Osteria Bacchus in Sant’Ambrogio showed us their favourite combination of sliced tomatoes, mozzarella, lettuce, anchovies broken into pieces and smeared over the bread, oregano, pepper and salt. It is important that the bread is not too hard to bite through and it should be moistened with good olive oil and sliced tomatoes. Or try tinned sardines, a few anchovies, plenty of chopped parsley and lemon juice or soft goat’s cheese, sliced tomatoes, rocket (arugula) leaves and the Sun-dried Tomato & Chilli Relish.