Norcineria
Under a Norcineria was formerly understood one against conserved in central Italy Pork specialized products butcher . Core products are ham and long- life sausages that have been hung for at least one year and preserved in a special recipe with wine, salt and pepper .
Origin of the term / delimitation and expansion
The term derives from the Umbrian town of Norcia , the traditional origin of the preservation process. Whether this was brought by the Jews or possibly goes back to the Romans is speculation. What is certain is that this is a process that has been handed down for centuries. The ham and long-life sausage producers from Norcia once roamed the whole of central Italy as wandering butchers in winter when the area snowed in.
Today the name Norcineria is also used in Umbria's neighboring regions of Tuscany and Latium , but its meaning has been diluted and the product range expanded: In addition to the core products, the sale of other types of meat (e.g. lamb) is permitted, and other regional products such as dried porcini mushrooms are often used and tomatoes, olives, sheep's cheese, lentils, truffles and antipasti are for sale. The artful presentation of the products, the individual customer care by the shop owners and the increasing interest of tourists in these offers have led to the fact that today in central Italy - more rarely in northern and southern Italy - a Norcineria is generally understood to be a delicacy butcher shop . This also applies to the Norcineries in Norcia itself, in which northern Italian cheese, Parma ham and Apulian honey are now part of the standard range.
The name giver and core product remains the Norcia ham, which is still made according to the traditional recipe. Since 1998 this has had a protected designation of origin ( Indicazione Geografica Protetta - IGP) for authentic regional products.
literature
- Christoph Hennig: Central Italy. 2nd Edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7701-5828-8 . P. 127 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page of the Consorzio di Tutela IGP Prosciutto di Norcia ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
