In the course of visiting grandmothers in the very southern portion of Lazio, I twice came across coriander-flavored sausages. The sausages in Monte San Biagio, called petartella, are extremely lean. The pork seems almost cut by hand; it is threaded with tiny pieces of potato and seasoned with coriander seeds. I told Ines Pemarella, an octagenarian native, that we didn’t have such a sausage in America and wondered if I could add coriander seeds as fl