Gammune di Belmonte

Belmonte is known for its tomatoes, but like everywhere in Calabria it cures pork too, and every family here used to keep a few pigs for the year's meat. Its own speciality is gammune, cut from the inner part of the leg much as culatello is, coated in a mild chilli paste and cased in the pig's caecum. It was what you served a guest of consequence or gave to the town's notables.