Is there a difference between salami and pepperoni?
A ‘salame is a cured (fermented and air-dried) sausage of Italian tradition. The name comes from the Italian verb salare, meaning ‘to salt’. In the United States, traditional salami are either imported or referred to as an “Italian Salame”, the protected term for salami made in the United States with authentic traditions. Historically, salami has been popular amongst Italian peasants due to being a meat product able to be stored at room temperature for periods of up to a year, supplementing a possibly meagre or inconstant supply of fresh meat…. Pepperoni is a spicy Italian-American variety of dry salami made of beef, pork and often veal. Pepperoni is a descendant of the spicy salamis of Southern Italy, such as salsiccia Napoletana piccante, a spicy dry sausage from Naples. Pepperoni is frequently used as a pizza topping in American-style pizzerias. It is the most popular pizza topping in North America. Pepperoni is a corruption of peperoni, the Italian plural of peperone, referring t
