Tripe love, mortadellacore, electric Alice Waters and the sandwiches there. I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of L.A. Times Food, with this week’s Tasting Notes. In Rome this summer, I had the chance ...

When I first visited Florence as a young whelp I was too much of a wuss to try the city’s signature panini di lampredotto, a tripe sandwich sold from street stalls all over the city. Historically a ...

That’s right, real Philadelphians eat tripe. It’s not really such a crazy assertion. After all, Philly — historically — is a city of immigrants. In the late 19th century, Italian immigrants arrived on ...

Though Bocca di Lupo, one of London’s finest Italian restaurants, has long served trippa alla romana as a special, it is now to launch the tripe sandwich on a permanent basis. In Rome, the sandwich ...

A tripe sandwich. When musing about food in Florence, most people dream of steak—the renowned bistecca fiorentina—but I reach deeper into the cow and go for any one of its four stomachs. Traditionally ...