noun
- salt-cured or smoked meat from the back of a pig, used especially in Southern cooking.
Usage: common in American Southern cuisine; often used to flavor vegetables and beans
Examples
- She added fatback to the collard greens for extra flavor.
- Fatback is a traditional ingredient in soul food cooking.
- The recipe calls for diced fatback to season the black-eyed peas.
- My grandmother always kept fatback in the pantry for cooking.
- Fatback gives the beans a rich, smoky taste.