In article >,
Opinicus > wrote:
>"Christophe Bachmann" > wrote
>> > I have an old Italian recipe which calls for "carne salata
>> > vergellata."
>> quoted in
>http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Stud...dizionario.htm
>> Vergellata : vergata di grasso e di magro
>> So salted meat streaked of fat and lean

>I couldn't find "vergellata" in any online Italian
>dictionary. Is the word related to "vergata"?

I know -- I tried all of them I could find.

>"Vergata di grasso e di magro/salted meat streaked of fat
>and lean" sounds like a version of what we call "streaky
>bacon" in English.

Off to find more about streaky bacon.

Thanks.
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