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Charcuterie board. A charcuterie board is of French origin and typically served as an appetizer on a wooden board or stone slab, either eaten straight from the board itself or portioned onto tableware. It features a selection of preserved foods, especially cured meats or pâtés, as well as cheeses and crackers or bread.
Capocollo. Capocollo[1] (Italian: [kapoˈkɔllo]) [2] or coppa (Italian: [ˈkɔppa]) [3] is an Italian and French (Corsica) pork cold cut (salume) made from the dry-cured muscle running from the neck to the fourth or fifth rib of the pork shoulder or neck. It is a whole-muscle salume, dry cured, and typically sliced very thinly.
Charcuterie hanging in a French shop. Charcuterie (/ ʃ ɑːr ˈ k uː t ər i / ⓘ, shar-KOO-tər-ee, also US: / ʃ ɑːr ˌ k uː t ə ˈ r iː / ⓘ, - EE; French: [ʃaʁkyt(ə)ʁi] ⓘ; from chair, 'flesh', and cuit, 'cooked') is a branch of French cuisine devoted to prepared meat products, such as bacon, ham, sausage, terrines, galantines, ballotines, pâtés, and confit, primarily ...
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. It is still part of southern Italian cultural heritage that local people (especially in the ...
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."
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). It is traditionally flavoured with peppercorns, but modern ...
Salumi (sg.: salume, Italian: [saˈluːme]) 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. The word salume, 'salted meat', derives from the Latin sal, 'salt'. Examples of salumi include:
Prosciutto means 'ham' in Italian and is a term particularly used to describe ham that has been seasoned, cured and air-dried. Prosciutto cotto is cooked, and prosciutto crudo is raw, although, because it has been salt-cured, it is ready to eat. ^ a b "IBERIAN, YORK AND PARMA HAM DIFFERENCES".