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Add your photo of this encyclopedia entry. A fatty bacon that is taken from pork belly and smoked over beechwood with herbs and spices. Speck is too fatty to be eaten raw, and is used primarily to flavor soups and sauces. It is produced in Tyrol, Italy which is near the Swiss border, hence the German sounding name. Animal.
For other uses, see Leek (disambiguation) . The leek is a vegetable that belongs, along with onion and garlic, to the genus Allium, currently placed in family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae. Historically, many scientific names were used for leeks, which are now treated as cultivars of Allium ampeloprasum.Two related vegetables, elephant garlic and Kurrat, are also cultivars of A. ampeloprasum, although different in their uses as food. In Turkey, especially ZeytinyaÄlÄ± pÄ±rasa (leek with olive oil), EkÅili pÄ±rasa (sour leek), Etli pÄ±rasa (leek with meat), PÄ±rasa Musakka(leek musakka), PÄ±rasalÄ± boerek (bÃ¶rek boerek bÃ¶rek) with Leek and pÄ±rasa koeftesi kÃ¶ftesi leek meatball.  are also cooked