Speck

Speck is smoked or pickled pork belly. In Germany, speck is pork fat with or without some meat in it. In Italy, Turkey and parts of the English-speaking culinary world, "speck" refers to Italian speck, a type of prosciutto,[1] rather than German speck. The term "speck" became part of popular parlance only in the eighteenth century and replaced the older term "bachen", a cognate of "bacon".

For other uses, see Speck (disambiguation).
Speck Alto Adige PGI – South Tyrolean speck
Smoked speck

Regional varieties

There are a number of regional varieties of speck, including:

  • Bacon, e.g. Frühstücksspeck ("breakfast speck") in Germany
  • Gailtaler speck from Austria, with PGI status, which has been made since the 15th century in the Gail Valley ("Gailtal") in Carinthia[2]
  • Guanciale, from Italy
  • Lardo, from Italy, with many sub-varieties
  • Pancetta, from Italy
  • Schinkenspeck, German "ham bacon", typically made from a flat cut of ham with fat along one side resembling bacon, and traditionally soaked for several days in brine with juniper berries and peppercorn,
  • Speck Sauris PGI, from Sauris, near Friuli. Italy
  • Speck Alto Adige PGI, the Italian speck
  • Tyrolean Speck from Austria's Tyrol region, which has PGI status, and has been made since at least the 15th century[3]
  • Ukrainian salo
  • Proshute, Albanian speck

Jewish deli speck

In Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, in which bacon (like all pork) is forbidden as unkosher, "speck" commonly refers to the subcutaneous fat on a brisket of beef. It is a particular speciality of delis serving Montreal-style smoked meat, where slices of the fatty cut are served in sandwiches on rye bread with mustard, sometimes in combination with other, leaner cuts.[4]

See also

References
  1. Speck - Smoked Prosciutto
  2. Lebensmittelnet.at - Gailtaler Speck (accessed 9 January 2008)
  3. Austria Tourist Info - Tirol(German) (accessed 9 January 2008)
  4. A Mission To Save Real Jewish Delis, A Dying Breed: NPR
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