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    Spleen Sandwich

    Photo Courtesy: Scott Gold, The Faster Times

    Scott Gold is the author of The Shameless Carnivore .  Recently he wrote about the Sicilian sandwich called vastedda which is made with calf spleen.  He had the sandwich at Ferdinando's Focacceria in Brooklyn, NY (151 Union Street, Brooklyn).

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Photo Courtesy: Scott Gold, The Faster Times

    Scott Gold is the author of The Shameless Carnivore. Recently he wrote about the Sicilian sandwich called vastedda which is made with calf spleen. He had the sandwich at Ferdinando's Focacceria in Brooklyn, NY (151 Union Street, Brooklyn).

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