salami

I order the Classic Italian with prosciutto, ham, salami and provolone.

“Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer,” Tiefer added.

For meat, a classic hard salami and a thinner meat like prosciutto should do.

“Exactly,” Hilton continued, explaining how his family had a salami business in Hungary and he had gotten his hands plenty dirty in the past, “doing every aspect of making sausage, including killing the pigs.”

Vachon, who long taught a class on charcuterie — “we do pâtés, terrines,” he said — was particularly proud of the dry-aging refrigerators, where salami hung.