Before the existence of the cold meats and fish were kept without doing estropeasen smoked and salted. Among the most prestigious salted meat is prosciutto, whose conservation elements are salt, air and time, sometimes with the help of smoke, olive oil and vinegar.
In this formula are all the basic ingredients that have been used for millennia to preserve meat without its decay in times when there were no refrigerators. The ingredients are very simple: salt, air and time with a few extras: smoke, oil and vinegar.