Umbrian Shoulder Cut 'Piuma di Pretoriano'

*The indicated price is per kilo

Legend has it that in ancient Rome, the soldiers who performed the emperor's bodyguard duties had the position of Praetorian guards. Their main role was to defend the emperor at any cost, and it was here, on long journeys between wars, along dangerous roads, that the emperor Gaius Julius Caesar would order his praetorian guards to defend his foodstuffs in store for his copious banquets. Of all the things he could have, he ordered his loyal fighters to carry and protect the 'noble shoulder cut', produced by the most coveted butchers of the time. 

Bound with the typical jute lace to a bamboo cane, it was carried on the shoulders of the Praetorian guards along the 'Via Salaria', from which it later took its name. Having survived over the centuries, 'il Pretoriano taglio antico imperiale' made from porks from Umbria, it was rediscovered from its roots in ancient Rome and revisited by the expert pork butchers of Umbria.

From the re-evocation of the ancient 'Pretoriano' cut, our master pork butchers have created a variant of this marvellous product, sweeter and 'calmer'. The 'Piuma di Pretoriano' is a part of the pig's shoulder, strictly from Umbria, which is softer, leaner and for this reason it was decided to select it to make it acquire completely different notes from its 'parent'.

The slice is slightly savoury and sweet and melts in the mouth.

The product can be purchased as a whole 700 g vacuum-packed piece.