Smoking and curing (charcuterie foundations)
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Charcuterie encompasses the techniques of transforming meat through salt, time, and smoke: dry curing (salt + time = prosciutto, bresaola, pancetta), wet curing (brine = corned beef, pastrami, bacon), smoking (hot smoke cooks, cold smoke flavours), and fermentation (salami, chorizo, nduja). These are among the oldest cooking techniques in existence, predating written history. Each method manipulates water activity, pH, and microbiology to preserve meat while developing complex flavours impossible to achieve any other way.
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