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| | Dancing with pigs / A journey to prosciutto's epicenter |
 | | An artisanal ham with a complex sweet, delicate flavor, prosciutto di Parma is as much a part of everyday life and culture in the area as it is gastronomy. |
 | | After slaughter and salting, the ham is hung and cured in the cool dry air of the region, air that is said to blow in from the east, gathering up scents of hay, orchards, vineyard and wheat fields along the way, then imparting their flavors to the ham. |
 | | While in other corners of the world prosciutto might be considered luxury on a par with caviar or truffles, in Parma it is decidedly something that one eats and eats and eats, if not every day, then probably several times a week in one guise or another. |
| sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/10/30/FD198462.DTL (1173 words) |
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