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Calabrian stuffed pork roll — thin pork escalopes (braciole) wrapped around a filling of 'nduja, Pecorino Crotonese, and fresh parsley, skewered with rosemary sprigs, and grilled over charcoal or braised in tomato. The 'nduja inside the roll melts during cooking, basting the pork from the inside with its chilli-pork fat combination and creating an intensely flavoured inner surface. The outer surface chars and caramelises against the heat.

A thick, oven-finished frittata built on slow-caramelised Tropea red onions and aged Pecorino Crotonese — Calabria's answer to the Spanish tortilla. Onions are cooked low and long in olive oil until jammy, then the egg mixture is poured in and the frittata finished under the grill for a bronzed top. The sweetness of Tropea onions against pungent pecorino and fruity Calabrian olive oil creates a balance that defies its simplicity.

Calabria's pasta with broccoli and anchovies in the style of the mulino (mill) — a preparation from the Calabrian interior where the miller's wife (mugnaia) would cook pasta with the vegetables available and the preserved fish from the coast. Orecchiette or rigatoni with Calabrian broccoli (a darker, more bitter variety than northern Italian) sautéed with desalted anchovies in olive oil until the anchovies dissolve into the broccoli oil, finished with dried chilli, garlic, and breadcrumbs.