Email this Recipe  Dinner Tonight  Dinner Tonight: Autostrada
Sandwich  Dinner Tonight: Autostrada Sandwich  The Italians know
how to do fast food. If ever you find yourself cruising down an
Italian autostrada or stuck in an airport, rather than settling
for a sub-par hamburger, chances are you can find a deli-style
counter where you can order a panini-style grilled sandwich
filled with superb cured meats and melted cheese, which sit
between two crisp sheets of hearth-baked bread. With this memory
in mind, I set out to follow Nancy Silverton's instructions in
her aptly titled book Nancy Silverton's Sandwich Book.  Making a
sandwich like the autostrada State-side is not quite so
easy—especially when you only want one or two of them. It took a
fair bit of haggling to convince the gentlemen at the Whole
Foods counter to slice me one-eighth-pound portions of one-
sixteenth-inch-thin mortadella, coppa, soppressata, and
prosciutto; I had to cross the store to get the fancy-cheese
counter people talking to the deli g