> At 10:43 AM 3/1/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >.  There may have been some salting of
> >meat in some cultures in order to help preserve it, but
smoking it, adding
> >nitrites and nitrates??  I don't think so.
> >
> >Siobhan
>
Go to primitive Mexico,  above the stove  a massive stone
hearth,  on a wire hangs meat being naturally smoked.

Go to Baja California,  They have a hundred kinds of  dried
food.

Lorenzo