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Prosciutto

Two years of doing nothing in a cellar, and it out-seasons anything you can buy in a jar.

on its own
0.0sour
2.0sweet
5.0savoury
0.0bitter
5.0umami
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1 of these 26 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

26 pairings for Prosciutto.

Salt cure on a fruit with no seasoning of its own; the fat is the sauce.

Asparagus

classic

Sulfur in the spear plus cure funk, wrapped so the fat bastes it.

Pear

common

Salt-cured fat draws water out of the pear and the pear puts sugar back.

Peach

common

Cured salt on sweet juice; the fat film keeps the perfume in the mouth longer.

Nectarine

common

Skin acid is higher than a peach, so the salt has something to argue with.

Persimmon

common

Melon logic with more sugar; the salt cancels whatever tannin is still hanging about.

Pea

common

Sweet green and salt; the classic spring plate that needs no dressing.

Cured fat over green starch, warm enough that the fat slackens.

Bread

common

Warm crust melts the fat slightly, which is when the aroma actually opens.

Parmesan

common

Both cured down to free amino acids. Same flavour, one chewy, one crumbly.

Butter

common

French logic on Italian ham: sweet butter mutes salt and lengthens it.

Cured salt against fresh sweet. The contrast is the whole recipe.

Watermelon

uncommon

Cured salt on sweet water, the melon logic transplanted from cantaloupe.

Champagne

uncommon

Autolytic yeast against cure funk, and the bubbles scrub the fat off.

Mascarpone

uncommon

A salt cure needs a fat with no opinions. This one has none.

Taleggio

uncommon

Cured pork fat under a melted rind. Alpine sandwich physics.

Campari

uncommon

Cured fat coats, bitterness scrapes. The standard aperitivo contract, unwritten.

Papaya

rare

Melon logic transplanted; the salt cancels the musk faster than the acid does.

Warm the slice, shave over. The fat is a solvent for truffle aroma.

Furaneol sweetness against salt; a summer swap for the melon cliche.

Oyster

wild

Aged land salt over live sea salt; the fat coats the brine and holds it.