Guide to Italian cured meats  2023

The first industry guide created in 2013 with the objective of cataloging and narrating quality Italian cured meats. We are proud and very pleased to present this totally renewed fifth edition, a useful tool available to passionate readers, as well as industry operators and producers.

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Guide to Italian cured meats 2023

The first industry guide created in 2013 with the objective of cataloging and narrating quality Italian cured meats. We are proud and very pleased to present this totally renewed fifth edition, a useful tool available to passionate readers, as well as industry operators and producers.

Discover more

OVER

400

MEATS EVALUATED

162

PRODUCERS

52

TYPES OF CURED MEATS

46

THE FIVE PINS TOP QUALITY PRODCUTS

20

SPECIAL AWARDS

The 2023 guide of Italian cured meats, a pioneering project.

Ten years of research with thousands of filled out forms, hundreds of tasted cured meats, PDO, PGI and ‘Ago e Filo’ (Needle and Thread) cured meats. This also includes organically cured meats, Black Pig Breeds, Animal Welfare with numerous awards assigned to the best professionals in this field.

The delicatessen in history

Although the art of pork butchery in our Country seems to derive from the homonymous city of Norcia, along the entire perimeter and history of Italy cured meats and sausages are part of every Italian’s home.

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Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare: an open question.

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The Italian and European Suino Nero

The history of the pig is closely intertwined with that of mankind starting from a particular historical moment: the so-called ‘Neolithic Revolution’.

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Organic Cured Meat

If we were to trace the parting moment in the history of organic farming, this would be the turn of the millennium.

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An online guide that looks to the future with enthusiasm.

Our enthusiasm is constantly fuelled by meetings with producers and tasting experiences, not to mention a rich archive of experiences since 2013, the year of the first publication.

Our work continues with passion and professionalism, a totally renewed, dynamic and contemporary online project at the service of quality Italian charcuterie.

An online guide that looks to the future with enthusiasm

Our enthusiasm is constantly fuelled by meetings with producers and tasting experiences, not to mention a rich archive of experiences since 2013, the year of the first publication.

Our work continues with passion and professionalism, a totally renewed, dynamic and contemporary online project at the service of quality Italian charcuterie.

About us

Sabatino Sorrentino

Editor