Living far from NY, I had mentioned elsewhere of a place in Port St. Lucie, FL near where I once visited, where I got an equivalent of lard bread which was sausage bread, nearly double what lard bread costs, but I was desperate. Being a packratter, I saved their card and now located a link:

http://www.southfloridadines.com/view...

The round lard bread with pieces of fat pork, etc. is the old-fashioned one that I've always been used to that my dad called anzunia bread. (I'd like to know what 'anzunia' means; lard in a dictionary is 'strutto' or 'lardellare'.) Down in Port St. Lucie, Fl. a friend pointed me to a place that makes a more expensive bread called sausage bread - unique but too divergent. I was glad to see via Squid Kun that Napoli is better than Mazzola simply because there's less need to travel out of Wmsburg. Next time I'll have to try to compare Parisi's with Napoli's.

After searching further I discovered the name of Napoli and sent my son the info. It's less than 4 blocks from him. At least, whenever I should go up to visit, I won't have to travel over to Little Italy where we normally eat and shop in Chinatown too. The last time I almost waited too long on my next-to-last day. I took what was leftover in one of two spots on Grand St. (no round loaves) but learned too late of Parisi on Mott. In previous searches, I focused unsuccessfully on the name anzunia bread; a friend now helped and caused me to remember that it's also called lard bread. I think the place on E.116th where my father would go was Morrone. Thanks to all for the opinions.

I can't believe I lucked out on this site. I'm originally from old Washington Heights and for Easter my father would send me to his old neighborhood on E. 116th St. to pick up some anzunia loaves (that's what he called it). I would eat one outright in the car on the way home. That place closed eventually as did another on 9th Ave. near Manganaro's. Since I live well away from the Northeast, when I go up, I bring back some from the Grand St. area. I'm telling my son in Wmsburg. about this; he loves lard bread.