This Italian traditional salad isn’t just a way to use up all the tomatoes in tomato season. Although any excuse to make it works! In fact, rustic bread salad goes back to the 16th century and was a way to use up stale bread. Originating as a peasant dish, panzanella, or panmolle, was a mixture of stale bread cubes, tomatoes and onions, vinegar, and olive oil.  It’s still a great recipe if you have stale bread to use up but it’s so good it’s well worth making just because the combination of ingredients is so very special. This might well become one of your favourite side salads.