Italian wine and salumi
Salumi (singular salume) are Italian cured meat products made predominantly from pork. Salumi include bresaola, which is made from beef, and also cooked products such as mortadella and prosciutto cotto.
The word salumi comes from the Italian word salume, pl. salumi "salted meat", derived from Latin sal "salt".[1]
Examples of salumi include:
- Prosciutto – Italian dry-cured ham that is thinly sliced and served uncooked (Italian: Prosciutto crudo)
- Capocollo, also known as Coppa or Capicola – Italian and Corsican pork cold cut
- Bresaola – Air dried and salted beef
- Cotechino – Type of Italian sausage
- Zampone
- Guanciale – Italian cured meat product
- Lardo – Cured and seasoned strips of pig fat
- Lonza – Meat delicacy
- Lonzino
- 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
- Salame di Felino, traditionally produced in Felino and other cities in the Parma province, qualifies for Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale
- Soppressata – Italian dry salami (sausage)
- Strolghino
- Ciauscolo
See also
- Charcuterie – Branch of cooking of prepared meat products, primarily from pork
- List of dried foods
- List of sausages
- Salumeria – Producer and/or vendor of cured pork (salumi)
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