Charcuterie is a French word for a cooking term devoted to preparing meat products like bacon, sausage, ham, pates, etc. So a person who practices charcuterie….is a charcutier! The first thing I had to do when researching this post about charcuterie….was to learn how to spell it))

So the charcuterie board is a platter of special meats usually combined with assorted cheeses and from that point, the sky is the limit))

A charcuterie board is usually an appetizer but can be a meal or just a snack. For our purposes today, we’ll talk about appetizers.