Since the rise of social media and trendy food trucks, the concept of “street food” has been surrounded by buzz, but it’s certainly not a new concept–at least not in Italy.

I still have fleeting flashes of my first trip to Italy in 1985 as a six year old, when trips to the market were for buying porchetta from a truck and pizza rossa (a classic flat-bread pizza with a scraping of tomato sauce), something I’d never eaten, let alone seen, in Australia at that time.