What animal does salami come from?

Salami is technically any type of encased meat, but all salami contains pork. There is also a considerable amount of high-quality pork fat in the meat. Salami is seasoned with salt, pepper and garlic. Some varieties are also flavored with wine and spices such as fennel, cinnamon and mace. read more

The salami that is of Hungarian origin, the so-called "Hungarian winter salami", is made of raw pork, bacon, salt, spices, sugars, and sodium nitrite. Szegedi téliszalámi (winter salami) is made from the Mangalitsa pork breed, with horse large intestine used as its casing to preserve and serve it. read more