By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

If you like eating and cooking foods from across the globe, you’ll probably agree that sometimes the one ingredient that makes a certain dish sing is one you can’t easily pronounce if you don’t speak that country’s language.

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For me, that includes anything that gets a savory heat with ‘nduja (pronounced en-DOO-ya), a soft and spicy sausage made with small but mighty sun-dried chilies from the Calabria region of Southern Italy.

The fatty ground pork that makes the spreadable salume such a tasty topping for pizza and pasta melts when it is heated up in a pan, blooming the Calabrian chile in the sausage’s own fat. The result not only imbues the dish with a flaming red hue — that bleeds onto your fingers, if you’re not careful — bu

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