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Gammon in British English is the hind leg of pork after it has been cured by dry-salting or brining, [1] and may or may not be smoked. [2] Strictly speaking, a gammon is the bottom end of a whole side of bacon (which includes the back leg); ham is just the back leg cured on its own. [ 3 ]
It is widely available wherever significant Italian communities occur, due to commercially produced varieties. The slow-roasted Piedmontese version is called coppa cotta. Capocollo is esteemed for its delicate flavour and tender, fatty texture, and is often more expensive than most other salumi. In many countries, it is sold as a gourmet food
A half-sliced piece of gammon. A 2004 sports feature in The Observer described Rupert Lowe as the "gammon-cheeked Southampton chairman". [5]In 2010, Caitlin Moran wrote that British Prime Minister David Cameron resembled "a slightly camp gammon robot" and "a C3PO made of ham" in her 13 March column in The Times, [6] later collected in her 2012 anthology Moranthology.
Gammon, a word in Australian Aboriginal English with various meanings, mainly relating to lying or pretence Gammon (insult) , a British pejorative insult term Gammon (meat) , a cut of quick-cured pork leg
Chipped chopped ham is a processed ham luncheon meat made from chopped ham. Chopped ham is a mixture of ham chunks and trimmings and seasonings, ground together and then packaged into loaves. City ham is the name for a variety of brine-cured hams that are not dry-cured or dried, so must be refrigerated for safe storage. It is known simply as ...
Soppressata is an Italian salume (cured meat product). Although there are many variations, two principal types are made: a cured dry sausage typical of Basilicata , Apulia , [ 1 ] and Calabria , and a very different uncured salami made in Tuscany and Liguria .
' lamb ham '). The process of making prosciutto can take from nine months to two years, depending on the size of the ham. A writer on Italian food, Bill Buford, describes talking to an old Italian butcher who says: When I was young, there was one kind of prosciutto. It was made in the winter, by hand, and aged for two years.
The classic Italian mortadella is widely sold in supermarkets along the entire Adriatic coast. In Greece, where there is a smaller version in addition to the regular one, that variety is called parizaki or mortadelaki , and in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and North Macedonia, the product known as mortadela is widely eaten.