Until 6 weeks ago if you wanted good prosciutto you had to seek out Prosciutto di Parma or San Daniele.

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In this country when we use the word prosciutto, most people take it to mean Prosciutto di Parma or a near sibling.

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Like Parmigiano-Reggiano, Champagne, Burgundy, or Prosciutto di Parma this means that it can only be legally made in a certain place under specific rules with specific labeling requirements.

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While Prosciutto di Parma and its close Italian relative, Prosciutto San Daniele, are both excellent and both readily available in this country, lower quality domestic imitations of both are even more readily available.

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