Boccalone!

What’s the difference between salumi and salami?  Cynical me, I thought it was just the price.  But actually, salumi are “Italian cured meat products…predominantly made from pork.”  Salami is specifically “cured sausage, fermented and air-dried.”  So, all salami is salulmi, but not all salumi is salami.  Got that?

For my birthday, Wilson and Cristina decided to hasten the aging process by getting me two Boccalone salamis.  If your friends don’t buy you outrageously spicy, salty, fatty and expensive meat products for your birthday, are they really your friends?  I’m just saying, it’s something to think about.

Beautiful Boccalone kraft box

More beautiful Boccalone salamis

Still beautiful Boccalone salame

Almar cutting in.  It was quite the event.

Peeling the rind, which I really really liked.  We unfortunately (tipsily) left the salamis sitting in the sun and the rind got all soft and stinky, like ripe cheese.  We drunkenly called Cristina asking her if this was right, but Almar was already eating before she could say, “Uh…no.”

Hurry up!

Happy mouth

Check out Boccalone’s Chris Cosentino demonstrating how to slice salami.  Having a meat slicer would be awesome.