That of the street seller of pork sandwiches is a figure that appears even in the pages of a great Italian writer like Carlo Emilio Gadda. In his Quel pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, in fact, resounds “La porca, la porca! Ciavemo the porchetta, gente! (we have porchetta, everyone!) La bella porca de l’Ariccia “, a call with which street vendors used to attract passers-by on the streets of Rome.

The porchetta, the sandwich stuffed with its hand cut meat, is one of the most popular foods of the Italian tradition, even if – originally – it was one of the foods par excellence of the families of the Roman nobility. Its consumption is associated both with street vendors, and so, eaten on the street, or with “fraschette”, eaten in the typical Castelli Romani inns, accompanied by a glass of red wine.