WAIE (whatamieating.com)


This is the searchable online international food dictionary with – so far – 63,471 terms in 303 languages plus 13,340 plurals.

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Most Recent Upload: 14th July 2010

I have been busy with other things just recently but have now managed another upload. I have had the great good fortune to make the acquaintance of Babette Blaedel-Flajsner who has started to do some really high quality work on my Danish and Swedish lists. I *love* it when good people add to my work and brush it into really good shape. Also Susi Arendt has kindly looked at German plural terms for me and I am slowly adding these. Many thanks to Babette and Susi.

I am just starting work on developing some apps so people can carry the largest food dictionaries in about 60 different languages with them wherever they go. I'll keep people posted as to how this goes.

I have also just met David Lyne-Gordon on-line. He has written a great work on edible plants and, to my great excitement, is keen to help out with some of my entries concerning the more uncommon plants. It is lovely for me to get help in this way.

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I am still working on improvements to the site. This is a long job and entry of new food terms will happen much more quickly once this structural work is done.

Please do let us know if you see any errors, broken links or pictures. Some of the changes I am making may lead to this happening and it would help if you could let us know.

Plural: prosciutti di Parma

Description: Parma ham from Emilia-Romagna. A cured, raw ham from pork thigh meat, rubbed with salt and hung to dry in the cool air of the long caves in the vicinity of Parma for 14-16 months.The breezes that blow through the caves or special warehouses are said to come from the sea and the mountains, having a special quality. This produces sweet, satin-textured, tender ham with dark pink flesh marbled with white fat. The best are stamped with a ducal crown to show they meet the approval of the inspectors. These hams have a DOC which requires that they must come from the region of Parma, will be from the meat of pigs born and raised in the region and fed on corn and barley with whey. Some of the exceptional flavour of the ham comes from the whey left over from the process of making Parmesan cheese. They must be 150 kg (340 lbs) in weight when they are slaughtered and be a year old. It is not permitted to use sugar, nitrites, water or additives of any kind at all other than salt in the cure. Parma ham may not be smoked.