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The Gizzeria board, as it arrives.
Authentic Calabrian charcuterie, made in Scottsdale, Arizona and delivered by hand. The cured meats and cheeses are the star. Not the garnish.
Pickup in Scottsdale, or hand delivery across the Phoenix area.
At least 70% of every Trovato's board, by weight, is cured meat and cheese. No crackers-and-grapes filler. The builder shows you the ratio as you go.
Each board takes you to a real place in Italy and comes with a manifesto card: what's on the board, where it's from, and the story behind it.
Calabrian PDO cured meats from USDA-inspected suppliers, stretched-curd cheeses from the south, bread toasted the morning you get it.
Our story
The family begins in Gizzeria Lido, a coastal town on Calabria's Tyrrhenian shore known for its fiery peppers. Mary Provenzano and Joseph Trovato carried the name through Ellis Island to Illinois; the next generation took it west by train to the Bay Area; and it came, at last, to Arizona. What traveled intact across all of it was not a menu. It was a standard: the meats and cheeses are the star, and there is always more than enough. It was always about more than the food. It was the time spent with family and friends, and the sharing of real Italian cured meats and cheeses.
I was born an American but lived the Italian traditions and values. So I went back. From Rome to the Amalfi Coast, Calabria, and Sicily, I tasted the charcuterie of every region, and I kept coming back to the same truth: it's about the quality and the generosity of the meats and cheeses, and the meaningful time shared around them. American charcuterie added too much and lost the tradition that makes it truly Italian. I took my family's traditions and my own travels and built a way to bring the real thing to your table.
Trovato means found. This is what we found.
The boards
Each one is a curated charcuterie board built around a single Italian region, and it arrives with a manifesto card for that region. Or start from one and make it yours in the builder.
Any other size is a custom board. Bigger, a different shape, or built around a theme — we make those to order and quote each one when we know what it is. Ask about a custom board.
Signature board
Gizzeria Lido is a coastal village in the province of Catanzaro on Calabria's Tyrrhenian coast: olive groves and farmland running down to the Gulf of Sant'Eufemia, along what locals call the Riviera dei Tramonti for the colors of its evening sky. It's an Arbëresh village founded around 1450, older than the printing press. It's where my family began.
The board is built on the four traditional Calabrian PDO cured meats, with 'nduja at the center, never cut, served on toasted rustic bread.
Pour a Cirò with it. It's the wine of Calabria's own grapes.
Manifesto · Gizzeria
Gizzeria Lido, Calabria — the Riviera of Sunsets. Founded in 1450 on the Tyrrhenian coast, an Arbëresh village of stone houses and olive groves running down to the sea. This is where my family began, five generations ago, before my great-great-grandmother carried it across the sea. Everything on this board comes from her Calabria: the 'nduja, the soppressata, the caciocavallo — the real thing, the way it was always meant to be shared.
Pick a size, place every piece where you want it, turn it, move it. The builder keeps the weight, the meat-and-cheese ratio, and the price honest as you go. When it looks right, send it to us and that's what we build.
Works best on a desktop or tablet. On a phone, tap to add and drag to arrange.
The Passport
Your first order comes with a Trovato's Passport. Every board after that adds a page and a stamp for its region, and the manifesto card goes in as a keepsake of the trip. Fill it, and we send you a gift from the table.
Want it monthly? The Passport subscription is a regional flight, one board a month, delivered by us: Calabria, Amalfi, Sicily, Rome, then north to Parma and the Alps, and back again. Ask for it on the order form.
Boards we’ve built
Custom boards & events
We make custom boards to order, and we build the table for events — grazing tables, corporate evenings, weddings, a long board down the middle of a birthday dinner. We price each one when we know what it is.
That's why there's no number on this part of the page. A custom board is quoted on its size, what goes on it, how many people it has to feed and where it's going. Tell us that much and we'll come back with a price and a date, usually within a day.
We'll read it and come back with a price and a date, usually within a day. Nothing is charged and nothing is booked until you say yes.
How ordering works
Pick a curated board or send one from the builder, with the date you need it and where it's going.
We reply within a day to confirm the board, the price, and the time. The cured meats come from USDA-inspected suppliers, so give us a couple of days' notice.
Collect in Scottsdale, or we bring it to you, chilled — Phoenix, Paradise Valley, Tempe, Mesa and the rest of the Valley. No delivery apps, no shipping. It never leaves our hands until it reaches yours.
Events and gifting. Weddings, corporate tables, private parties, and in-person corporate gifting anywhere in the Valley. A grazing table for a full room is a custom board, so these are quoted rather than priced from a list — send an event inquiry with the headcount and the date and we'll size it.
Arizona only, for now. Trovato's is made in a home kitchen under Arizona's Cottage Food Program, which means every board is prepared here and delivered by us in person.
In their words
These come from people who ordered a board. Every one is read before it appears, so there's a day or so between writing one and seeing it here.
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Order
Send the request and we'll reply within a day with a confirmed price and time. Nothing is charged until we've talked.
Need a size that isn't on the list? Custom boards and events are quoted individually, so they go through the inquiry form instead of this one.
Your board from the builder
We'll be in touch within a day to confirm the board and the time. Grazie.
