Replies: Some other familiar foods that rely on bacteria for their flavor or form include: blue cheese, sour cream and hard salami.

He had once hidden a hard salami there for a week.

Then we got fancy with mozzarella and hard salami, stuffed ourselves on grilled cheese, even dared to face the challenge of cucumber-and-butter sandwiches.

Its diameter is much larger than that of hard salami and resembles more salami cotto (cooked) in size, hence the confusion of some people.

Get your salami hard, get your hard salami, all in one venue.

They substitute for the process of natural fermentation that acidifies some meat products such as hard salami or prosciutto.

A suitably modified starch is used as a fat substitute for low-fat versions of traditionally fatty foods, e.g., reduced-fat hard salami having about 1/3 the usual fat content.

The cheese looked dark and dry, the hard salami shriveled and curled.

I even bring food with me, things that travel well - chocolate and hard salamis.

Hunks of Parmesan mined from a huge wheel, wafers of hard salami and limp, oil-soaked fried zucchini were less appealing.