"Lardo" is a salted
strip of fat from the back or
from shoulder of pork . It's generally
white , just sometimes it's lightly streaky . It
can be more or less salted . It
exists in many regional variations , with
different periods of maturing and
different aromatics . Well known in
Italy are the " Lardo di Arnad
"(Valle d'Aosta ) and the " Lardo di Colonnata
" (Tuscany ) .
You can see above on the left
a simple lardo's slice and on
the right a slice of the wonderful
lardo of Colonnata . More info about Colonnata
, a very small village on the
so called "Apuane Alps"
.
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