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A Valentine's Day Gift That's All About the Pork

by Bill Sertl, Posted Feb 10th 2011 @ 1:00PM

Salami bouquet for Valentine's Day meat-lovers Photo: Olympic Provisions

For an unusual Valentine's Day gift, do you want to meat me in St. Louis, or express your love with pork in New York? Well, forget it. But if you live in Portland, Oregon, you really can say it with sausage this year, reports Willamette Week. Olympic Provisions, one of the city's prime purveyors of all things porcine, will deliver a five-salami bouquet (long stemmed, we're sure), complete with a singing Salamigram delivered by the lead singer of favorite local alt-country band The Tumblrs. ($75; February 11–14.) As for all you folks in San Antony, nothing says love like pepperoni.

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Boccalone - Ask a Shopkeeper

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by Chris Dudley, Posted Jan 27th 2010 @ 1:00PM

Photo: urbanfoodie33, Flickr.

You won't find many titles that contain both the words "vice president" and "shop manager," and you won't find many salumi shops like Boccalone either. The salumeria in San Francisco's Ferry Building is one of the best places in the country to experience the sheer joy of chowing down on high-quality, slow-cured pork. We recently caught up with Executive Vice President Tatiana Graf and asked her about her day-to-day routine working in a pig lover's paradise.

One day about a month after we had opened the shop, an older woman came in and started looking around. When I greeted her, she asked in a slightly gruff way, "You don't make head cheese, do you?" I said, "Of course we do. We call it Coppa di Testa. Would you like to try some?" She was surprised and said "Sure." I could tell she wasn't convinced that I knew what I was talking about. I got a sample and brought it over for her to try. While she tasted it, I explained a little about our company and how we make make everything in the traditional, old-world style. She considered for a minute and then a smile grew across her face. She looked me in the eye and told me she hadn't tasted any head cheese that good since her father, who was a butcher, had made it when she was a kid. She said the flavor took her right back to her childhood. All the gruffness in her voice was gone. She was happy and so was I.

Filed under: Local Delicacies

Cold Cuts ID Quiz

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by Slashfood Editor, Posted Sep 1st 2009 @ 4:19PM

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

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Feast Your Eyes: La Fromagerie, Moxon St, London

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by Marisa McClellan, Posted Apr 16th 2008 @ 9:03AM

There's nothing like a pile of good quality charcuterie piled up on a rustic table, with a table slicer in the rear of the waiting to shave ham, prosciutto and salami into thin delicious bits of meaty goodness. This image makes me nearly start to salivate and I want to leap up and run to my closest specialty store for a bit of porky goodness. The picture comes to us from food blogger Niamh of Eat Like a Girl. Find out more about her trip to Marylebone here.

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The meat you should give for Christmas

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by Bob Sassone, Posted Nov 15th 2006 @ 3:35PM

Lobel's beef The December issue of Esquire has a gift guide for the person who plans on giving meat to friends and family this Christmas.

The first choice is an obvious one, and a familiar one to fans of The Late Show With David Letterman: Lobel's, in New York City. The mag calls it "the best steak in America," and I bet there are some places in the South that would want to argue that point. They also list the Best Ham In America, The Best Sausage, The Best Barbecue, and even the Best Wine to go along with your meat gifts.

Warning: You probably shouldn't wrap the meat early and put it under the tree until Christmas. Not only will that make for a very funky Christmas morning, your dog will probably ravage the gifts to find out what the hell that smell is. And don't put any meat in the stockings either. That's just wrong.

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