Unsung Salumi is Ordinary

A few weeks ago, we took the advice of Ed Levine, founder of Serious Eats, and traveled to Chelsea to taste the goods at Sumeria Biellese.  “Unsung Salami” is how Levine titled his piece describing the shop for Edible Manhattan.

Maybe we ordered wrong, but the salami heroes in this place should remain undiscovered.  They weren’t anything that we couldn’t have found at nearly any corner deli in the city.  It wasn’t worth the treck to this small drab place on Eighth Avenue.

One item that Levine nailed was the bread.  Spongy doesn’t even begin to describe its doughy consistency.  Still, the roll wasn’t the problem.  The salami was.  Ordinary as ordinary can be.

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