Panino con Salsiccia di Cavallo
Horse meat sausage on bread.
Horse meat sausage on bread.
Calabrian sausage is fresh, so its panino cooks the filling: a fennel-and-chilli link grilled to order, split into a roll wiped through the pan juices. The Calabrian pork sandwich that needs a fire.
The panino con salame Sant'Angelo carries the only Sicilian salame with a European mark, knife-cut to a coarse irregular grain, peppered, and cured in the damp air of the Nebrodi hills.
Salame mantovano leads with garlic steeped in Lambrusco before it touches the pork, a coarse soft cure from the humid Po plain, thick on a crusted roll. PAT status, no DOP yet.
Salame Felino stakes everything on doing less: pork minced medium, seasoned with garlic and pepper steeped in white wine, hand-tied, and shaved thin at the clarinet-beak angle on a quiet Parma roll.
Salame di Varzi DOP cut thick on the bias: lean and fat in large pieces, a mild sweet cure from the damp Oltrepò hills, on a plain roll that lets the softness lead.
A Piedmontese salame built on the lean, dark, faintly gamey beef of an end-of-career dairy cow, bound with pork fat and cured in the Valli di Lanzo above Turin.
Cooked salami; Piedmontese specialty.
Salam d'la duja on a firm biova: a Piedmontese salame matured submerged in pork lard inside a terracotta crock, kept slack and almost spreadable because the rice-paddy air was too damp to hang it.
Tuscan DOP prosciutto, saltier and more assertive than Parma, on unsalted Tuscan bread.
Prosciutto di Sauris IGP (lightly smoked); unique among Italian prosciutti.
San Daniele DOP prosciutto (sweeter, softer than Parma, guitar-shaped); aged in Alpine air.
DOP Parma ham; aged minimum 12 months, sweet and nutty, on bread or in piadina.
Prosciutto di Norcia IGP (slightly smokier, aged in mountain air) on bread.
Wild boar prosciutto; gamey, intense cured meat.
Spit-roasted suckling pig (porceddu) on bread; Sardinia's famous roast.
Pezzente (poor man's salami from organ meats); rustic, strong-flavored.
Piacenza pancetta DOP; rolled, cured pork belly.
'Nduja (spicy, spreadable pork salami with Calabrian chili); fiery, melts when warm.
'Nduja from Spilinga (spreadable salami with Calabrian chili); fiery, melts on warm bread.
Mortadella with visible pistachio nuts; premium version.
The original mortadella from Bologna; huge, pink, studded with fat cubes and sometimes pistachios, on soft white bread.
Mocetta (dried, cured beef or chamois/ibex); Alpine cured meat.
Luganega sausage (thin, coiled fresh pork sausage) grilled and on bread.