What could be more simple than a pan`ino? Take some bread & butter, slice it through the middle & fill it. Seen in this way, the sandwich is almost an ”anti-cuisine”, a nomadic shortcut that allows for speed & little thought. But when Alessandro Frassica thinks about his pan`ino, he considers it in a different way, not as a shortcut, but as an instrument for telling stories, creating layers of tales right there between the bread & its butter. Because even if the sandwich is simple, it is not necessarily so easy to create. Alessandro searches for ingredients, & in the raw foods he finds people: producers of pecorino cheese from Benevento, anchovies from Cetara, `nduja spicy salami from Calabria. Then he studies the combinations, the consistencies & the temperature, because a pan`ino is not just a random object; savoury must be complemented by sweet; tapenade softens & provides moisture; bread should be warmed but not dried; thus the sandwich becomes a simple way of saying many excellent things, including finding a complexity of flavours that can thrill in just one bite.