Musciame
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Type | preserved meat |
Place of origin | Italy |
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Invented | traditional |
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Variations | Musciame di tonno |
Musciame or mosciame is a traditional Italian
Production
Musciame was made on board ship by the sailors and fishermen of the Ligurian and Versilian coast, in north-west Italy. Strips of dolphin meat were salted, then hung by a string from the mast to dry in the sun for about a week.[4] The result had the appearance of a small log charred by fire. The meat was black,[1]: 220 and became hard if kept for long.[2]: 16
Musciame may not legally be sold or produced in Italy.
Consumption
Musciame was a basic element of the diet of Ligurian seamen, who ate it with
Musciame di tonno
Dolphin musciame may be substituted with a similar food, musciame di tonno, which is made from fillet of tuna. It is prepared in the summer months by salting strips of tuna fillet from the large conical muscle known as bodano, which are then sun-dried, smoked, or – more often – dried in a warm oven.[8][9]: 362
See also
- Mojama
- Cuisine of Liguria
- List of Italian dishes
References
- ^ a b c Alan Davidson (1981 [1972]). Mediterranean Seafood, second edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- ^ ISBN 8870090221.
- ^ [staff] (24 January 2014). Italia: Carne di delfino al ristorante. La denuncia di Lav e Marevivo (in Italian). Il giornale dei marinai e della pesca. Accessed July 2016.
- ^ a b c Marco Bellentani (21 March 2012). Musciame, tradizione giustamente rivisitata (in Italian). La Gazzetta di Viareggio. Accessed July 2016.
- ^ a b [s.n.] (7 October 2014). L’Enpa: «Delfino massacrato da trafficanti di mosciame» (in Italian). La Nuova Sardegna. Accessed July 2016.
- ^ [editorial] (23 January 2014). Filetti di delfino essiccato venduti in un ristorante di Civitavecchia (in Italian). RomaToday. Archived 30 July 2016.
- ^ [s.n.] (28 July 2015). Rapporto Lav su Zoomafia 2015: emerge il fenomeno della "Pirateria dei fiumi" (in Italian). La Stampa. Accessed July 2016.
- ^ a b [s.n.] ([s.d.]). Musciame o Mosciamme di Tonno (in Italian). Il Corriere della Sera. Archived 29 November 2013.
- ISBN 9788889527344.