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Origin
Puglia
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Description
Small, tight rolls of thin-sliced capocollo pork wrapped around a filling of local Canestrato Pugliese cheese (or caciocavallo), parsley, pepper and sometimes pancetta — a speciality of the Valle d'Itria, cooked on the grill or in a wood-fired oven until the cheese inside melts and the pork exterior crisps. The bombette are a staple of the Pugliese macelleria-rosticceria.
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The Thread
—Melted cheese as a filling inside a grilled meat casing — same cheese-melt-in-meat principle Greek
—Rolled thin pork filled with ham and cheese, fried or grilled — structural parallel in construction and filling Spanish
—Skewered meat rolled around cheese, grilled over charcoal — same construction, same high-heat technique Brazilian
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Flavour Context
Smoky, porky, with the pull of melted sheep's cheese and a black pepper bite; the char on the outside gives bitterness that balances the richness inside
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