Borsotto is a traditional Italian cooked cured meat with a distinctive cylindrical shape, made from finely minced pork blended with pork fat in carefully balanced proportions. The mixture is stuffed into a hand-sewn pork rind casing, which gives the product its characteristic appearance and helps preserve its rich flavour during cooking.

Historically, Borsotto was a classic feature of Sunday lunches in rural families across Northern Italy. Its origins are closely linked to the long-standing tradition of pig farming, where every part of the animal was carefully used to avoid waste. Less prized cuts of pork, enriched with aromatic spices and local wine, were transformed into delicious cooked specialities such as Borsotto, perfectly reflecting the famous Italian saying: “Nothing goes to waste from the pig.”