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Pepperoni and a Glass of Sake: The New York Times in 60 Seconds

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  • The government issued a radical new statement the other day: "Eat less." Yep.

Filed under: Newspapers, In Sixty Seconds

Cold Cuts ID Quiz

Can you identify a cold cut by sight alone, or will your wits be spoiled? Check out these lunch meats and test your sandwich smarts!

Cold Cuts ID Quiz

This soft, air-dried sausage is usually made with a combo of beef and pork.

  • Mortadella
  • Dutch Loaf
  • Lebanon Bologna
  • Cotto Salami

This is a turkey version of which classic cold cut?

  • Corned Beef
  • Pastrami
  • Bastirma
  • Brisket

This traditional cut has been so long beloved, it's the star of an English ballad first performed in the 1730s.

  • Roast Beef
  • Brisket
  • Corned Beef
  • Smoked Meat

This dry cured ham is simply lip smacking when wound around melon slices.

  • Pancetta
  • Capicola
  • Sopressatta
  • Prosciutto

Name these hams from left to right.

  • Pressed Ham / Black Forest Ham
  • Turkey Ham / Chopped Ham
  • Black Forest Ham / Turkey Ham
  • Chopped Ham / Pressed Ham

A small dash of white wine contributes to the flavor of this cured, sometimes multi-meat Italian treat.

  • Genoa Salami
  • Nostrano
  • Capicola
  • Bresaola

We can't pretend this is anything but olive loaf. What ingredient is not found in it?

  • Corn Syrup
  • Mechanically Separated Chicken
  • Red Peppers
  • Cloves

This picture is full of baloney. What varieties are they from top to bottom?

  • Beef / Turkey / Chicken & Pork
  • Soy / Turkey / Beef
  • Chicken & Pork / Beef / Turkey
  • Beef / Soy / Pork

This soft, smoked meat is a variety of liverwurst,.

  • Cervelat
  • Gelbwurst
  • Leberkase
  • Braunschweiger

This pork and beef sausage is cured, rather than cooked.

  • Lebanon Bologna
  • Hard Salami
  • Mortadella
  • Morcilla

This smoked, juniper-flavored proscuitto is also known as what?

  • Speck
  • Bresaola
  • Lardo
  • Presunto

This kosher cut is a grocery store staple.

  • Dutch Loaf
  • Spiced Luncheon Loaf
  • Beef Salami
  • Summer Sausage

Name these ham styles from left to right.

  • Black Forest Ham / Chopped Ham
  • Smithfield Ham / Black Forest Ham
  • Chopped Ham / Smithfield Ham
  • Virginia Ham / Chopped Ham

The name of this American-made, Italian style sweet salami means

Filed under: Quizzes, Ingredients

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Ready, Set, Pepperoni Bread!


Six hours in the car on the way to Pittsburgh this past weekend gave me plenty of time to think about food for my family reunion. The menu was already set and included family favorites like hot and sweet Italian sausage cooked in tomatoes with thinly sliced red peppers served on Mancini rolls, thick baked beans with chunks of juicy ham and molasses, and stuffed shells with ricotta and loads of melted mozzarella. My task -- make an appetizer that wouldn't seem out of place on this meat and cheese-heavy table.

Get Jennifer's Pepperoni Bread recipe after the jump.

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Filed under: The Skinny Chef, Ingredients

Pizza Pasta Salad

penne pastaYou ever have one of those days when you're not sure what you want to have to eat? You're trying to decide between pizza or maybe pasta or maybe go the healthy route and have a salad. Well, now you don't have to decide.

This recipe for Pizza Pasta Salad has everything: you have your penne pasta, your tomatoes, your pepperoni, your salami, your mozzarella cheese, even Italian salad dressing and Parmesan cheese. Sounds like a recipe that you can experiment with.

(OK, it's not the healthy salad route mentioned above but it sounds pretty good.)

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Totino's, Jeno's frozen pizzas recalled

pizzaPot pies and spinach are one thing, but this is pizza we're talking about!

General Mills is recalling 5 million boxes of its Tostino's and Jeno's frozen pepperoni pizzas because of possible E. coli. The pepperoni actually came from a third party. The recall is for pepperoni pizzas produced since July. So far, 21 cases of illness have been reported. Four of the customers actually have some sort of kidney failure (!), but no E. coli has been officially found at the General Mills plant.

Here is the info on the recall.

Filed under: Business, Stores & Shopping, Health & Medical

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