Sausages are versatile, often being used to flavor soups, rice, pasta and even cornbread. The linguica, for example, is used traditionally in the caldo verde, a kale and potato soup. You can spice up fried rice with lop chong, paella with chorizo, jambalaya with andouille. Salami, like fresh sausage, is seasoned ground meat stuffed into a casing, but it is aged. Salumi offers nine salamis, all made by hand.
Salami is good in a sandwich or simply sliced and enjoyed with bread, cheese and wine.
Batali started the salami business after he retired from Boeing with 31 years under his belt. He traveled to Italy and New York over two years to study with butchers. Salumi also offers other cured meats, such as lamb prosciutto and coppa. Curing meat is like alchemy. It's very technical.