The unconditional love for sausages, salami and insaccati (cured meats) is undoubtedly strong and well rooted in Italian cuisine and the social culture revolving around the pleasure of food. The famous saying “Del maiale non si butta via niente” (no part of the pig should be thrown away) expresses the essence of Italian cuisine all so well.

In fact the rural tradition devoted to livestock farming, especially pigs, and the farmer’s and peasant’s conditions of extreme poverty led them to use up all the parts of the animal and, above all, find ways to preserve them for long periods of time.