Italian salami
salami, parma ham,
bologna and speck
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Italian salami, the best Italian
food appetizers as salami, parma ham, speck and
bologna. Italians use to eat it as a snack or
appetizers, usually with bread.
Italian salami is not enough
as a title for this page. I was looking for the
right word, but there isn't a word in english that
summarize all these wonderful products. In Italian
language there are some words that gather all these
typical products as salami, raw ham, bologna,
speck... |
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They are
usually sold in slices (better if sliced at the
moment, even if there are packages that mantain the
right atmosphere), and it relates with the english
word used for them: cold cuts!The Italian most used
words to call them are: "affettati" (= sliced) or
"insaccati" (=inside a bag).
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Italians use to eat them
inside the bread, as a
snack, as antipasto or even
to a take away lunch. Even
if we are talking about
kinds of sausage (I admit,
it's not the right word!), I
want to underline the fact
that as they are typical
Italian products, they are
consumed in great quantities
and so they seem to be
always "fresh". |
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If it happens
to go to a supermarket, you'll see
the one who works on this counter
opening always new packs of raw ham,
mortadella and salami, as they are
part of Italians everyday diet.
Most
known Italian salami
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Ham (cooked) is the one
most used for children, and
you can find a lot of
choices, with no
preservatives, smoked and so
on.
There's also a king of
roasted ham that looks more
like a pork thigh, as it
mainatins its shape instead
of common ham who is
sometimes quite in a square
shape. |
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Italian raw ham is maybe
one of the most known
outside Italy. It is
produced in many regions of
Italy, including Parma, that
gives the name to a very
known brand of raw ham.
Depending
on where it is produced, and
which methods are followed
for its productions, it may
change colour (usually the
salted ones are darker) and
taste. |
Italian salami
includes such a variety that only a
connoisseur can deal with.
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Italy we can find a few qualities, but if
you |
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visit Italy, try different ones, it worths
the try! Speck
is a smoked raw ham produced in northeast
Italy. It has a strong tasty and as I said
somewhere else before, matches perfectly
with
gorgonzola cheese. |
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