Speck can refer to a number of European cured pork products, typically salted and air-cured and often lightly smoked but not cooked.
In Germany, speck is pickled pork fat with or without some meat in it. In the Netherlands and Flanders, in Dutch, ''spek'' is bacon.
Throughout much of the rest of Europe and parts of the English-speaking culinary world, speck is usually South Tyrolean speck, a type of Italian smoked ham. The term ''speck'' became part of popular parlance only in the eighteenth century and replaced the older term ''bachen'', a cognate of ''bacon''.
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Speck can refer to a number of European cured pork products, typically salted and air-cured and often lightly smoked but not cooked.
In Germany, speck is pickled pork fat with or without some meat in it. In the Netherlands and Flanders, in Dutch, ''spek'' is bacon.
Throughout much of the rest of Europe and parts of the English-speaking culinary world, speck is usually South Tyrolean speck, a type of Italian smoked ham. The term ''speck'' became part of popular parlance only in the eighteenth century and replaced the older term ''bachen'', a cognate of ''bacon''.
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