Spicy salamella is made with paprika and hot peppers, giving it a wonderful flavour boost. It's the original Calabrese pepperoni - and still the best. Fabulous to nibble on with a glass of red wine while dinner is cooking.

Regarded as one of the finest of all Italian salamis, salame Felino is a delicate, lightly cured, soft, coarse-cut sausage from the area of Felino near Parma. Made with a high proportion of top-grade lean pork, it is a lightly cured, sweet salame flavoured with peppercorns, a little garlic and local white wine. Serve as part of an antipasto misto, or eat with a sliver of Parmigiano and some...

This sweet, smoky and lightly spicy salame is made in Campania to an age-old recipe. Using the best-quality cuts of pork, salame Napoli has a delicate, smoked flavour and goes brilliantly with a mixed platter of mild cheese, good bread and fresh fruit.

Fine-tasting, with a delicate, ruby-red colour. Seasoned with black pepper, spices, garlic and dry white wine, it is dried over charcoal and then hung to age. Slice is soft and at fine grain.

A real foodies' delight, this high-quality unsmoked bacon is wonderfully lean. Guanciale Toscano is traditionally dried for three weeks, which gives it a fabulous depth of flavour. It is made using the meat from the pigs' cheeks, hence the name - guancia means "cheek" or "jowl". It can be used in much the same way as you would use pancetta, and adds a wonderful richness and succulence to...

Fine-tasting, with a delicate, ruby-red colour, this salame is known as hunters' salame because its handy portable size makes it a perfect tasty snack to take on a hunting trip. Seasoned with black pepper, spices, garlic and dry white wine, it is dried over charcoal and then hung to age. Slightly harder meat then the Cacciatorino DOP. Slice and eat just as it is, or serve as a...

A traditional pure pig fat made in the hills of northwestern Tuscany, lardo di Colonnata is one of the world's great culinary delicacies. Made by maturing pork back fat with salt, garlic and peppercorns, lardo is customarily served in wafer-thin slices on good toasted bread, so the residual heat of the bread loosens the fat. It's also very good spread thinly on bread and topped with a light...

A traditional pure pig fat made in the hills of northwestern Tuscany, lardo di Colonnata is one of the world's great culinary delicacies. Made by maturing pork back fat with salt, garlic and peppercorns, lardo is customarily served in wafer-thin slices on good toasted bread, so the residual heat of the bread loosens the fat. It's also very good spread thinly on bread and topped with a light...

The very best Ham in the world, imported from Italy and branded with the authentic logo. This quality meat is low in salt and known for its distinctive sweet flavour. With Prosciutto di Parma you can invent all the dishes you want: with melon as starter or with bread as snack, ecc. It is the principal ingredient of Italian Tortellini.

A fantastic product, Speck is the most celebrated speciality of the Tyrol. It is made to strict traditional methods - "a little salt, a little smoke and a lot of fresh air". Cured with a light crust of salt flavoured with pepper, juniper, rosemary and bay, the ham is then exposed alternately to mild smoking and drying. Authentic speck Alto Adige PGI can be made only with lean, firm pork...

An intense, sweet ham with a lovely, soft texture, San Daniele ham is produced in the Friuli region to the north-east of the country. This incredibly special ham is just delicious to eat alone, as antipasto or with melon or cheese. It is a completely natural product, with no additives or preservatives, full of vitamins and minerals, and made only from the best quality Italian ham...

The very best ham in the world, imported from Italy and branded with the authentic logo. This quality meat is low in salt and known for its distinctive sweet flavour. With Prosciutto di Parma you can invent all the dishes you want: with melon as starter or with bread as snack, ecc. It is the principal ingredient of Italian Tortellini.

The authentic cured ham on the bone, San Daniele D.O.P. It has an uniform pinkish-red colour, a profile and marbling of pure white fat, an intense fragrance and a sweet, delicate taste with a lingering aftertaste. Soft and yielding to cut. Without preservatives. Produced and packed in San Daniele (UD), in the region of Friuli.

A stunning centerpiece for a special party, this delicious whole ham has real wow factor in looks and taste. One of the finest cooked hams in the world, this is made exclusively in Lombardy with the best pork from selected farms. Only one leg out of four can become Gran Biscotto, the only ham with continuous marking on the skin. There are many ways you can savour...

Produced in Ariccia has a more tasty meat than the traditional Porchetta. The white and pink meat in enriched in flavour with the use of rosemary, black pepper and garlic.

A world famous Tuscan salame whose name derives from the wild fennel seeds that go into making it; its flavour is enriched by the addition of a generous splash of chianti. According to local myth, finocchiona was created after a thief hid some stolen salami in a field of fennel. When the hoard was recovered by its owners, they found that the pungent fennel aroma had added a delicious aftertaste...

One of the most famous of all Calabrian foods, nduja (pronounced en-doo-ya) is a soft, sweet-spicy spreadable salami. Originally from the village of Spilinga, it is made with pork meat, a little fat, salt and a lot of red pepper. It is even claimed that nduja is an aphrodisiac, and that its good for the heart. True or not, it's deliciously moreish. Eat on crostini or bread, or in pasta...

Norcia, near the breathtaking Sibillini mountains in Umbria, is known for its fresh air and stunning scenery, and for its popularity among mountaineers and hikers. It's a favourite spot for hunters, especially of wild boar, and the town has become fabled for its sausages and ham to the point that the term norcineria is in itself almost a guarantee of quality. Norcia ham is a...