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  • A can of olive oil or a salame was a small status symbol rather than a memento.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • I'm particularly enamored with their Finocchiona salame, which is a dry-cured pork salami with fennel seeds.

    The Kitchn 2008

  • Wherever they could settle in sufficient concentrations with sufficiently good communications—in the cities, in essence—Italians of different regions chose to eat things like salame, cheese, olive oil, pork chops, homegrown vegetables, and, of course, maccheroni with a rich sauce.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Although the even more masculine Aroused pig—a peeled salame jutting out from a sauce of espresso coffee and eau de cologne—was available to both sexes.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • The dish consists of a couple of capons, a nice piece of veal, some salame, a nice soup, and anything you want as long as it is boiled.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • But even on this meager budget, an Italian could regularly afford such items as salame, cheese, sardines, lard, salt beef, tea, coffee, and beer.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • The same could be said of the men and women who set up myriad pasta workshops in the “Little Italies” of the United States, or sold fruit, vegetables, olive oil, salame, and cheese from handcarts.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • De Amicis listened in pity as the wide-eyed peasants invoked the gifts they were taking to the Americas: “a bottle of local wine, a caciocavallo cheese, a salame, a kilo of pasta from Genoa or Naples, a liter of oil, a box of dried figs, even an apron-full of beans, but beans from home, from some special corner of the vegetable patch that their relative or friend would surely remember.”

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Smoked and sweet sausage, fennel salame, bre-sola, mortadella and more will be available come spring.framani. com6.

    Our 15 Picks 2008

  • A basket made from a hollowed-out orange containing several kinds of salame, butter, mushrooms in vinegar, anchovy, and whole green chilies.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

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