Fontina and Ramp Bruschetta

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as an appetizer
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Barbuto Cookbook: California-Italian Cooking from the Beloved West Village Restaurant

By Jonathan Waxman

Published 2020

  • About

Ramps are this essence of spring. Throughout the very cold and dreary winter months in New York we dream of strawberries, asparagus, and the arrival of spring. The winter can drag on forever, but when you least expect it, up come the daffodils, the harbinger of things to come. Ramps come in at a mere trickle, then a bit more, followed by a literal assault of ramps. This member of the lily family is ubiquitous as the snow melts. We use ramps in cocktails with gin, and in pastas as a substitu