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Mortadella Bologna PGI from Italy Mortadella with pistachios from Italy. Mortadella (Italian: [mortaˈdɛlla]) [1] is a large salume made of finely hashed or ground cured pork, which incorporates at least 15% small cubes of pork fat (principally the hard fat from the neck of the pig) from which the world renowned affordable comfort food ingredient Bologna sausage is derived from.
Mortadella di Campotosto (popularly called coglioni di mulo) is a salami produced in limited quantities in the territory of the comune (municipality) of Campotosto, in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo.
Italian wine and salumi Aging salumi Prosciutto di Parma Salame Felino. Salumi (sg.: salume, Italian:) 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.
Pink waves of mortadella — the Italian pork sausage that inspired bologna — are rippling over plates of antipasti, in sandwiches and on pizzas across L.A. It might even show up in your cocktail.
Mortadella di Campotosto Spreadable sausage flavored with nutmeg and liver sausage with garlic and spices are hallmarks of Teramo cuisine. Ventricina from the Vasto area is made with large pieces of fat and lean pork, pressed and seasoned with powdered sweet peppers and fennel and encased in dried pig stomach.
The Italian sausage was initially known as lucanica, [3] a rustic pork sausage in ancient Roman cuisine, with the first evidence dating back to the 1st century BC, when the Roman historian Marcus Terentius Varro described stuffing spiced and salted meat into pig intestines, as follows: "They call lucanica a minced meat stuffed into a casing, because our soldiers learned how to prepare it."
Italian cuisine relies heavily on traditional products; the country has a large number of traditional specialities protected under EU law. [20] Italy is the world's largest producer of wine, as well as the country with the widest variety of indigenous grapevine varieties in the world. [21] [22]
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