Salumi

Salumi (singular salume) are Italian meat products typical of an antipasto, predominantly made from pork and cured. Salumi also include bresaola, which is made from beef, and some cooked products, such as mortadella and prosciutto cotto.

Italian wine and salumi

The word salumi, "salted meat," derives from Latin sal, "salt".[1]

Aging salumi
Prosciutto di Parma
Salame di Felino

Examples of salumi include:

  • Prosciutto – Italian dry-cured ham that is thinly sliced and served uncooked (Italian: Prosciutto crudo)
    • Prosciutto di Parma – Italian dry-cured ham that is thinly sliced and served uncooked
    • Prosciutto di San Daniele – Italian dry-cured ham that is thinly sliced and served uncooked
    • Speck – dry-cured ham from South Tyrol
    • Culatello – Italian dry-cured ham that is thinly sliced and served uncooked
    • Culaccia / Culatta
  • Capocollo, also known as Coppa or Capicola – Italian, Corsican and Swiss pork cold cut
  • Bresaola – Air-dried and salted beef
  • Cotechino – Type of Italian sausage
  • Zampone – Italian sausage
  • Guanciale – Italian cured meat product
  • Lardo – Cured and seasoned strips of pig fat
  • Lonza – Meat delicacy
  • Lonzino – Cut of meat from a pig
  • Mortadella – Large Italian (pork) sausage
  • 'Nduja – Italian spicy, spreadable sausage made with pork
  • Pancetta – Italian bacon made of pork belly meat
  • Salami – Cured sausage, fermented and air-dried meat
    • Genoa salami – Variety of Italian sausage
    • Salame di Felino – A variety of Italian salame, traditionally produced in Felino and other cities in the Parma province, qualifies for Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale
    • Soppressata – Italian dry salami (sausage)
    • Strolghino – Italian cured pork
    • Ciauscolo – Italian smoked sausage

See also

References

  1. OED sv. salumeria, n.


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