Campania · Avellino

Capicollo di Zungoli

Long ageing gives this page a cave-and-ham character: lean meat, pepper, restrained smoke, and the mineral suggestion of tufa rooms.

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What it is

A Zungoli “capicollo di prosciutto”: a matured salume made from the leanest and most prized parts of the ham, seasoned with salt and pepper and made without additives or preservatives.

Origin place card

Zungoli, in the province of Avellino, gives this salume a tufa-grotto and Irpinian ageing identity rather than a generic regional one.

Verified history

Source-framed history/tradition only: Il capicollo di prosciutto viene prodotto da oltre 25 anni secondo metodiche tradizionali che si tramandano di generazione in generazione.

Ingredients

Il capicollo di prosciutto è un salume stagionato costituito dalle parti più magre e pregiate del prosciutto con l'aggiunta di sale e pepe, privo di qualsiasi additivo o conservante.

Method

, condizionamento, stagionatura I suini, tutti rigorosamente nazionali, vengono allevati in allevamenti ubicati nella regione Campania. Gli stessi sono avviati agli impianti di macellazione siti in provincia di Avellino. Dopo la macellazione le mezzene

Why travel for it

Zungoli belongs on the atlas not only as a salume stop but as a place where architecture, caves, and ageing rooms should be photographed together.

Recreate-it pathway

Recover safe test-kitchen quantities only from technical sheets, producers, or supervised culinary testing; never invent salt ratios, ageing environments, or preservation advice.

Fieldwork questions

Who still makes it? Which family/producers preserve the oldest method? Are there named feast days, serving customs, cellar/grotto sites, or exact local quantities? Can photographs and interviews be secured?

Photo brief

Shoot Capicollo di Zungoli in its place context: landscape, ageing room/cellar/grotto if available, hands/cut/tie/slice, finished plate, and a map/place image.