Salumi

Not to be confused with salami.

For the restaurant in Seattle, see Salumi (restaurant).

Italian wine and salumi

Aging salumi

Prosciutto di Parma

Salame Felino

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 – dry-cured ham, thinly sliced and served uncooked (prosciutto crudo)
  • Prosciutto di Parma
  • Prosciutto di San Daniele
  • Speck Alto Adige – dry-cured ham from South Tyrol, Italy
  • Culatello
  • Culaccia / culatta
• Capocollo, also known as coppa or capicola – Italian and French pork cold cut
• Bresaola – air-dried and salted beef
• Cotechino – slow cooked pork sausage
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• Guanciale – prepared with pork jowl or cheek
• Lardo – Italian cured and seasoned strips of pig fat
• Lonza and lonzino – salumi made from cured pork loin
• Mortadella – sausage made from finely ground cured pork
• 'Nduja – Calabrian spicy, spreadable pork sausage
• Pancetta – made from pork belly meat
• Salami – cured sausage, fermented and air-dried meat
  • Salame Felino – traditionally produced in Felino and other towns in the province of Parma, qualifies as a prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale (PAT)
  • Salame genovese di Sant'Olcese
  • Soppressata – dry salami
  • Strolghino – thin, lean cured sausage
  • Ciauscolo – smoked and dry-cured sausage from Marche and Umbria
  • Ventricina – dry fermented pork sausage from Abruzzo

See also

Media related to Salumi at Wikimedia Commons

• List of sausages
• List of dried foods
• Charcuterie – branch of cooking of prepared meat products, primarily from pork
• Salumeria – producer and/or vendor of cured pork (salume)