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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."
Cotechino (/ ˌ k oʊ t ɪ ˈ k iː n oʊ,-t eɪ ˈ-/, Italian: [koteˈkiːno]) is a large Italian pork sausage requiring slow cooking; usually it is simmered at low heat for several hours. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its name comes from cotica ('rind'), but it may take different names depending on its various locations of production.
In North America, Italian sausage most often refers to a style of pork sausage. The sausage is often noted for being seasoned with fennel or anise as the primary seasoning. In Italy, a wide variety of sausages , very different from the American product, are made.
Rye bread and sausage or sauerbraten replace the English muffins and Canadian bacon. [4] Ben-Gurion's rice – folk name for Israeli couscous, named for Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who spurred Eugen Proper, one of the founders of Osem, to devise a wheat-based substitute for rice. [5]
Cotechino Modena or cotechino di Modena (Italian: [koteˈkiːno di ˈmɔːdena]; spelled cotecchino or coteghino in some major dialects, but not in Italian) is a sausage made with pork, fatback, and pork rind recognised as a product with a protected geographical indication (PGI), originating in the city of Modena, Italy.
Luganega (also called luganiga, luganica or lucanica) is an Italian fresh sausage made with pork.It is a traditional food from Lombardy, Veneto and northern Italy and is usually rolled up to appear like a snail. [1]
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).
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 .