Capocollo
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Capocollo[1] (Script error: No such module "IPA".)[2] or coppa (Script error: No such module "IPA".)[3] is an Italian and French pork salume made from the dry-cured muscle running from the neck to the fourth or fifth rib of the pork shoulder or neck. It is a whole-muscle salume, dry cured, and typically sliced very thinly. It is similar to the more widely known cured ham or prosciutto, because they are both pork-derived cold cuts used in similar dishes. It is not brined as ham typically is.
Etymology
This cut is typically called Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang". in much of Italy, Corsica, and southern Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons).[4] This name is a compound of the words Script error: No such module "Lang". ('head') and Script error: No such module "Lang". ('neck'). Regional terms include Script error: No such module "Lang". (Campania and Calabria) and Script error: No such module "Lang". (Corsica).
Outside of Europe, terms include bondiola or Script error: No such module "Lang". in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and capicola or capicolla in North America.[5] The pronunciation gabagool has been used by some Italian Americans in the New York City area and elsewhere in the Northeast US, based on the Neapolitan language word Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "IPA".) in working-class strata of 19th- and early 20th-century immigrants.[6] It was notably used in the television series The Sopranos, and its use has become a well-known stereotype.[7][8][9]
Varieties and official status
Four particular varieties (coppa piacentina, capocollo di Calabria, coppa de Corse,[10] and capocollo di Martina Franca)[11] have PDO and PGI (capocollo di Martina Franca) status under the Common Agricultural Policy of European Union law, which ensures that only products genuinely originating in those regions are allowed in commerce as such.[12][13]
Four additional Italian regions produce capocollo, and are not covered under European law, but are designated as prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali (PAT) by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food, and Forestry Policies:
- Capocollo della Basilicata;[14]
- Capocollo del Lazio;[15]
- Capocollo tipico senese or finocchiata, from Tuscany;[16]
- Capocollo dell'Umbria.[17]
Outside Europe, capocollo was introduced to Argentina by Italian immigrants, under the names bondiola or bondiola curada.
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Slices of Coppa Spécialité Corse (Corsica): a balanced quantity of white fat is important for flavour and tenderness.
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Slices of capocollo di Martina Franca served with figs
See also
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References
Further reading
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- ↑ Riley, Gillian. "Capocollo". The Oxford Companion to Italian Food. Oxford University Press, 2007. p. 100. Template:ISBN.
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- ↑ Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd ed., 2004.
- ↑ Dan Nosowitz. "How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained". Atlas Obscura. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
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