Caciocavallo of the emigrant

By the early 20th century, immigration had become a mass phenomenon in the United States.

Facing hordes of desperate people from Europe, the American health authorities had no choice but to establish draconian hygienic safety measures.

And therefore, in addition to the ban on plants and animals, also that of pork and derived products.

From then on (and for decades), the customs guards had been seizing piles of sausages, mortadella, hams, and the like.

A tragedy for the paisà, who were not only forced to live doing exhausting jobs but also had to forget the flavours of their lands of origin.

Anyway, “every law has a loophole“, right?

The ban did not concern dairy products, to which access was allowed. And here is the “caciocavallo of the emigrant“: a type of stretched-curd cheese (the “caciocavallo” itself) worked around the salami.

The latter, now fully covered and thus made invisible to the guards, could be smuggled into the US.

The moral of the story is: smuggling is a crime, but seasoning cured meats is not. And for this, there is the climatic cabinet by Inox Bim.