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a little slipper of bread, named for footwear and just as eager to be filled.
means A small ciabatta roll, the diminutive of the larger flat Italian loaf, typically split and filled to make a sandwich.
from From Italian, the diminutive of ciabatta — itself the everyday word for a worn-down slipper — with the suffix -ina shrinking it to 'little slipper.' The bread earned the name because its flat, sprawling, somewhat shapeless form recalls a flopped-open house shoe. Ciabatta itself is a surprisingly modern bread, developed in 20th-century Italy as an answer to imported French baguettes, and ciabattina is simply its pocket-sized offspring.
- name origin
- means little slipper in Italian
- young bread
- ciabatta was invented in 1982, not antiquity
- airy inside
- big holes come from very wet dough
- sandwich destiny
- shaped small to cradle a single meal
- diminutive
- the -ina ending makes it cuter and tinier
ciabattina shoes — italian flat slip-on shoe style, traditional women's footwear from northern italy since the 1950s
ciabattina bread roll — small elongated italian bread roll, regional specialty in piedmont and lombardy regions