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Guanciale
Guanciale () is an Italian salt-cured meat product prepared from pork jowl or cheeks. Its name is derived from , meaning 'cheek'. Its rendered fat gives flavour to and thickens the sauce of pasta dishes. Production Guanciale is usually rubbed with just salt and ground black pepper by cooks in Rome, but some producers use other spices, herbs, or red pepper, and sometimes garlic. It is cured for three weeks or until it loses approximately 30% of its original weight. Its flavour is stronger than that of other pork products, such as pancetta, and its texture is more delicate. When cooked, the fat typically melts away. In cuisine Guanciale may be cut and eaten directly in small portions, but is often used as an ingredient in pasta dishes such as and sauces such as . republication of ''La Buona Vera Cucina Italiana'', 1966. It is a specialty of central Italy, particularly Umbria and Lazio. Pancetta, a cured Italian bacon that is normally not smoked, is sometimes used as a substi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amatriciana Sauce
Amatriciana sauce, known in Italian as ''amatriciana'' (''matriciana'' in Romanesco dialect),Ravaro (2005), p. 395. is a sauce made with tomatoes, guanciale (cured pork cheek), ''pecorino romano'' cheese, black pepper, extra virgin olive oil, dry white wine, and salt. Originating in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Amatrice (in the mountainous province of Rieti of the Lazio region), the amatriciana is one of the best known pasta sauces in present-day Roman and Italian cuisine. The Italian government has named it a '' prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale'' (PAT) of Lazio, and ''amatriciana tradizionale'' is registered as a traditional speciality guaranteed (TSG) in the EU and the UK. Development Amatriciana derives from a dish called ''pasta alla gricia''. The origin of the word ''gricia'' is unclear. In papal Rome, the ''grici'' were sellers of common edible foods,Ravaro (2005), p. 329. who got this name because many of them came from Valtellina, at that time a possession of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carbonara
Carbonara () is a pasta dish made with Adipose tissue, fatty Curing (food preservation), cured pork, Types of cheese#Hard cheese, hard cheese, Eggs as food, eggs, salt, and black pepper. It is typical of the Lazio region of Italy. The dish took its modern form and name in the middle of the 20th century. The cheese used is usually . Some variations use Parmesan, Grana Padano, or a combination of cheeses. Spaghetti is the most common pasta, but bucatini or rigatoni are also used. While guanciale, a cured pork jowl, is traditional, some variations use pancetta, and lardons of smoked bacon are a common substitute outside Italy. Origin and history As with many recipes, the origins of the dish and its name are obscure; most sources trace its origin to the region of Lazio. The dish forms part of a family of dishes consisting of pasta with cured pork, cheese, and pepper, one of which is . It is very similar to , a dish dressed with melted lard and a mixture of eggs and cheese, but not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Cuisine
Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine#CITEREFDavid1988, David 1988, Introduction, pp. 101–103 consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Ancient Roman cuisine, Roman times, and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora. Significant changes Columbian exchange, occurred with the colonization of the Americas and the consequent introduction of potatoes, tomatoes, capsicums, and maize, as well as sugar beet—the latter introduced in quantity in the 18th century. It is one of the best-known and most widely appreciated Gastronomy, gastronomies worldwide. Italian cuisine includes deeply rooted traditions common throughout the country, as well as all the diverse Regional cuisine, regional gastronomies, different from each other, especially between Northern Italy, the north, Central Italy, the centre, and Southern Italy, the south of Italy, which are in continuous exchange. Many dishes that were once region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pork Jowl
Pork jowl is a cut of pork from a pig's cheek. Different food traditions have used it as a fresh cut or as a cured pork product (with smoke and/or curing salt). As a cured and smoked meat in America, it is called jowl bacon or, especially in the Southern United States, hog jowl, joe bacon, or joe meat. In the US, hog jowl is a staple of soul food. Outside the United States, there is a longer culinary tradition: the cured, non-smoked Italian variant is called guanciale. Culinary Jowl bacon can be fried and eaten as a main course, similar to streaky bacon. Often, it is used as a seasoning for beans, black-eyed peas or cooked with leafy green vegetables such as collard greens or turnip greens in a traditional Southeastern meal. Jowl meat may also be chopped and used as a garnish, similar to bacon bits, or served in sandwich form. Pork jowl can be used as a binding ingredient in pork liver sausages, such as liverwurst and braunschweiger. Traditions in the US A Souther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pancetta
Pancetta () is a Salting (food)#Meat, salt-cured pork belly meat product in a category known as ''Salumi, salume''. In Italy, it is often used to add depth to soups and pasta. (in Italian). Uses For cooking, pancetta is often cut into cubes (''cubetti di pancetta''). In Italy, it is commonly served as a Lunch meat, sliced meat, sliced thin and eaten raw. It can also be used in carbonara (although guanciale is generally regarded as more traditional). republication of ''La Buona Vera Cucina Italiana'', 1966. Types The two basic types of pancetta are ''arrotolata'' ('rolled') and ''stesa'' ('flat'). The ''arrotolata'', salted, is mainly cut in thin slices and eaten raw as part of Antipasto, antipasti or simply as a component of a sandwich; the ''stesa'' is used chopped as an ingredient in many recipes or cut in thick strips that are usually eaten grilled. There is also a version of ''arrotolata'' to which ''Capocollo, coppa'' is added in the center of the roll (''pancetta coppa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pork Jowl
Pork jowl is a cut of pork from a pig's cheek. Different food traditions have used it as a fresh cut or as a cured pork product (with smoke and/or curing salt). As a cured and smoked meat in America, it is called jowl bacon or, especially in the Southern United States, hog jowl, joe bacon, or joe meat. In the US, hog jowl is a staple of soul food. Outside the United States, there is a longer culinary tradition: the cured, non-smoked Italian variant is called guanciale. Culinary Jowl bacon can be fried and eaten as a main course, similar to streaky bacon. Often, it is used as a seasoning for beans, black-eyed peas or cooked with leafy green vegetables such as collard greens or turnip greens in a traditional Southeastern meal. Jowl meat may also be chopped and used as a garnish, similar to bacon bits, or served in sandwich form. Pork jowl can be used as a binding ingredient in pork liver sausages, such as liverwurst and braunschweiger. Traditions in the US A Souther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bacon Dishes ...
The following is a list of bacon dishes. The word ''bacon'' is derived from the Old French word ''bacon'', and cognate with the Old High German ''bacho'', meaning "buttock", "ham", or "side of bacon". Bacon is made from the sides, belly, or back of the Domestic pig, pig and contains varying amounts of fat depending on the cut. It is cured and smoked over wood cut from apple trees, mesquite trees, or hickory trees. Bacon is used as an ingredient or condiment in a number of dishes. Bacon dishes See also * Bacon mania * List of bacon substitutes * List of ham dishes * List of pork dishes * List of sausage dishes * List of smoked foods References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Bacon Dishes * Bacon Bacon is a type of Curing (food preservation), salt-cured pork made from various cuts of meat, cuts, typically the pork belly, belly or less fatty parts of the back. It is eaten as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), used as a central in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose Mercury News
''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidiary of Media News Group which in turn is controlled by Alden Global Capital, a vulture fund. , it was the List of newspapers in the United States#Top 10 newspapers by circulation, fifth largest daily newspaper in the United States, with a daily circulation of 611,194. , the paper has a circulation of 324,500 daily and 415,200 on Sundays. this further declined. The Bay Area News Group no longer reports its circulation, but rather "readership". For 2021, they reported a "readership" of 312,700 adults daily. First published in 1851, the ''Mercury News'' is the last remaining English-language daily newspaper covering the Santa Clara Valley. It became the ''Mercury News'' in 1983 after a series of mergers. During much of the 20th century, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazio
Lazio ( , ; ) or Latium ( , ; from Latium, the original Latin name, ) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy, administrative regions of Italy. Situated in the Central Italy, central peninsular section of the country, it has 5,714,882 inhabitants and a GDP of more than €212 billion per year, making it the country's second most populated region and second largest regional economy after Lombardy. The capital of Lazio is Rome, which is the capital city of Italy. Lazio was the home of the Etruscan civilization, then stood at the center of the Roman Republic, of the Roman Empire, of the Papal States, of the Kingdom of Italy and of the Italian Republic. Lazio boasts a rich cultural heritage. Great artists and historical figures lived and worked in Rome, particularly during the Italian Renaissance period. In remote antiquity, Lazio (''Latium'') included only a limited part of the current region, between the lower course of the Tiber, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Monti Sabini and the Pontine M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umbria
Umbria ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Cascata delle Marmore, Marmore Falls, and is crossed by the Tiber. It is the only landlocked region on the Italian Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula. The regional capital is Perugia. The region is characterized by hills, mountains, valleys and historical towns such as the university centre of Perugia, Assisi (a World Heritage Site associated with Francis of Assisi, St. Francis of Assisi), Terni, Norcia, Città di Castello, Gubbio, Spoleto, Orvieto, Todi, Castiglione del Lago, Narni, Amelia, Umbria, Amelia, Spello and other small cities. Geography Umbria is bordered by Tuscany to the west and the north, Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. Partly hilly and mountainous, and partly flat and fertile owing to the valley of the Tiber, its topography includes part of the central Apennine Mountains, Apennines, with the highest point in the region at Monte Vettore on the border of Marche, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
