The bassa padana, rice cooked with rope sausage and crumbly cotechino sausage, finished with Grana Padano cheese, may be even better: a real butcher's risotto.
So Manny turned to an expert at Lupa, a meat-eater's paradise in lower Manhattan, who concocted something based on a traditional recipe for "rope sausage".
We tried our rope sausage out on the discerning bar crowd at Montero's on Atlantic Avenue, and they liked it just fine.
A recipe for rope sausage, provided by Aidells, has 10 ingredients (not counting the meat and the fat), like the original Slim Jim.
The bassa padana, cooked with rope sausage and crumbly cotechino, may be even better: a real butcher's risotto.
Toys are also a serious business - Pets at Home sells 2m toys a year, from vinyl rope sausages at £2.99 to latex chickens and rapper dog toys.
Shape the dough into a long rope or sausage shape about half an inch thick.
Serves 4 900g white, green or savoy cabbage A large white onion 75g pancetta or bacon 2 tbsp olive oil 60g butter Salt and black pepper 1 3 tbsp red wine vinegar 4 large/8 small or a rope of sausage 1 Discard the tough outer leaves of the cabbage, cut into quarters, cut away the tough core and then shred each quarter. 2 Peel and thinly slice the onion and dice the pancetta.
Named to honor the iconic New York hot dog by Greek immigrants, they are often pork frankfurters chopped short, about 4" long, with squared off ends because they are cut from a long rope of sausage, not traditional links.
When it's filled, remove the funnel and tie a double knot at the end of the rope of sausage.
Shop windows beckon with traditional local delicacies — ropes of sausage, wedges of cheese, bottles of honey, casks of local wine — and the cafes are filled with groups of old men chatting in the native Corsican language.
