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Italian salami

salami, parma ham, bologna and speck

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...
 

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).

Italian salame 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".

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

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.

Italian ham
Italian raw ham

 

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.

 Usually outside Italy we can find a few qualities, but if you Italian speck
come to 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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