Ingredient: Salamis - General
Category: Cured Sausages
Season: All
Salami is cured sausage, fermented and air-dried.
Salami may refer specifically to a class of salumi (the Italian tradition of cured meats), where an individual sausage or style of sausage (e.g. Genoa) would be referred to with the singular Italian form salame.
Alternatively, in general English usage, salami may be singular or plural and refer to a generic style or to various specific regional styles from Italy or elsewhere, such as France, Poland or Germany.
The name comes from the Latin/Italian root sal-, meaning 'salt'.
Historically, salami has been popular amongst Italian peasants due to being a meat product able to be stored at room temperature for periods of up to a year, supplementing a possibly meagre or inconstant supply of fresh meat. |