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Lucanica was a short, fat, rustic pork sausage in Ancient Roman cuisine.
Apicius documents it as a spicy, smoked beef or pork sausage originally from Lucania; according to Cicero and Martial, it was brought by Roman troops or slaves from Lucania.[1][2]
It has given its name to a variety of sausages (fresh, cured, and smoked) in Mediterranean cuisine and its colonial offshoots, including:
- Italian luganega or lucanica.
- Portuguese and Brazilian linguiça
- Greek loukaniko, a fresh sausage usually flavored with orange peel
- Spanish, Latin American, and Philippine longaniza, a name which covers both fresh and cured sausages
- Arabic laqāniq, naqāniq, or maqāniq, made of mutton and some semolina[3][4]
Notes
- ^ Oxford Companion to Food
- ^ Touring Club Italiano Le città dell'olio, 2001, Touring Editore pag. 237 ISBN 883652141X
- ^ Maxine Rodinson, "GHidhā", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. full text
- ^ For the phonetic variation, see Dulaym ibn Masʻūd Qaḥṭānī, Sound changes in Arabic sonorant consonants (not seen)
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