The Typical Emmedue Lucanian Salami

SALSICCIA LUCANICA
There are many regions contending with each other for the origins of this extraordinary pork product. As a matter of fact, people from Milan tell a tale according to which the Lombard Queen Teodolinda invented the “Lugane- ga” (as it was called in the area of Milan). Nevertheless, Cicero, Martial and Marcus Terentius Varro clarified the origins of the sausage, claiming that the Lucanica, in- introduced in Rome by female slaves from the Basilicata
region, was a kind of minced meat pushed through pork casings. It was called Lucanica because Roman soldiers had learnt how to manufacture it from people from the Basilicata region.