Don't Sound Like a Tool: How to Pronounce Salumi Varieties

​Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more godawful imitations of a language you don't speak.

The past five years have seen a proliferation of housemade salumi. New varieties and subvarieties of cured pork appear weekly, the payoff for stumbling over their names a gust of pork fat and spice. SFoodie asked Mark Pastore, co-founder of Boccalone, to read through a list of some of the commonly mispronounced types of salumi spotted at local restaurants and charcuteries.

Ann L./Yelp

'Nduja: DOO-yah. The "n" is silent.

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Click on the audio icon to hear Mark Pastore pronounce the following list:

Capocollo
Ciccioli
Coppa di testa
Culatello
Finocchiona
Guanciale
'Nduja
Prosciutto
Salame cotto
Salametto
Sanguinaccio
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