   thumb|a tri-tip panini with salad in italy, a panino () is a grilled sandwich made from bread other than sliced bread, in which case italians call it a tramezzino. examples of bread types used for panini are ciabatta, rosetta and baguette. the bread is cut horizontally and filled with deli ingredients such as salami, ham, cheese, mortadella, or other food, and sometimes served warm after having been pressed by a warming grill. a toasted sandwich made from sliced bread is not called "panino" but "toast" by italians, and is usually filled with ham and a few slices of cheese, and heated in a sandwich press. a popular version of panino in central italy is filled with porchetta, slices of pork roasted with salt, rosemary, and sage. in the united states, united kingdom and canada, the term panini has been adopted to refer to pressed and toasted sandwiches; there is widespread availability and use of sandwich presses, often known as "panini presses" or "toasted sandwich makers." in australia and new zealand an intermediate meaning of the term exists, referring to toasted sandwiches made with bread other than sliced bread, most frequently baguette. ==terminology== the word panino [pa'ni:no] is italian for "bread roll"; its plural form is panini. the word is the diminutive form of pane (bread). in some english- and french-speaking countries, panini is sometimes used as a singular word (like salami, also an italian plural noun) and sometimes pluralized as paninis. in italian, panino refers properly to a bread roll and panino imbottito (stuffed panino) to a sandwich. paninoteca is the word for a sandwich bar. panino is also often used to refer to a sandwich in general. ==history== although the first u.s. reference to panini dates to 1956, and a precursor appeared in a 16th-century italian cookbook, the sandwiches became trendy in milanese bars, called paninoteche, in the 1970s and 1980s. trendy u.s. restaurants, particularly in new york, began selling panini, whose popularity then spread to other u.s. cities, each producing distinctive variations of it.{
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