Finished Lardo
The lardo I put under a cure six months ago came out of it's dark, salty chamber.
The lardo I put under a cure six months ago came out of it's dark, salty chamber.
Of all the cured meats from Italy, for me, lardo is the most essential, primal, and pristine. It challenges our modern view of food down to one of it's most fundamental and pervasive cores: fat is bad for you. But eaten as intended, sliced thin and consumed sparingly, this fat is good for you in every life-enhancing way imaginable.