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ITALIAN FLAVORS:
Calabria Salami
By Consorzio di Consorzio Salumi di Calabria with MiPAAF
The origins of the salumi
tradition in Calabria probably date back to the times of the Greek colonisation of the Ionic Coast and
the cultural and artistic
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splendour of Ancient Greece. It is a three thousand
year old tradition, though
the oldest written account
comes courtesy of Varro,
a Roman intellectual. He
wrote of “minced meat,
stuffed into casing”, which
the Roman soldiers learned to produce from the
southern populations.