Salsicce

Salsicce (pronounced salseeche) are link sausages, made with ground pork, cubed pork fat, spices, and herbs. They're consumed three different ways.

• Raw when fresh, in a sandwich (they have to be very fresh and one has to be a great fan of raw pork to eat them this way -- more of a fan than I usually am).
• Cooked when fresh -- either as is on the grill, or with the casing removed, as an ingredient in other dishes (for example, try slipping a couple of skinned sausages into the cavity the next time you roast a whole chicken).
• Thinly sliced, once they've aged for a couple of months. In this case they're much like salami and can be a real treat.

Want to make sausages? You'll find instructions here.

A general overview of salumi, Italian cold cuts.
Affettati Misti, a mixed cold cut antipasto