The island's pork is used to make fine hams, sausage and other unique items including coppa (dried rib cut), lonzu (dried pork fillet), figatella, salumu (a dried sausage) salcietta, Panzetta, bacon, figatellu (smoked and dried liverwurst) and prisuttu (farmer's ham).
A similar disorder occurs in people, including those with cystic fibrosis, celiac disease or chronic pancreatitis, and both people and pets often take the same enzyme-rich dried pork pancreas in powder or capsule form to treat it.
As health's bloom gingerly returns, the water is replaced with chicken stock and pepped up with coriander, dried pork, chicken slices, crispy onions, a generous squeeze of lime and lashings of jeow (red pepper flakes, lime, soy and fish sauce).
One of the greatest meals in my recent memory took place in a rustic Italian wine cellar in Campania, where, leaning against barrels in the dim light, we bit into balls of warm, creamy buffalo mozzarella, bread torn from a crusty loaf and chunks of spicy dried pork sausage.
The creative take on Peruvian and jungle classics at Amaz (Avenida La Paz 1079, +51 1 221 9393, amaz.com.pe, £30 a head) means the simplest dishes – such as tacacho, mashed and fried green bananas, with cecina, dried pork, both Amazonian staples – drip with unexpected layers of flavour.
Rudolph's also sells dried pork rind and cracklin "pellets" ready for deep frying at home or in your restaurant.
Food venders are always nearby hawking the perfect complement to a tipsy evening: grilled meats, dried squid, pork buns, noodles.
It's a cylindrical rice roll packed in with twisted cruller, pickled vegetables and dried, shredded pork.
There are a ton of people who don't like specific foods because of childhood memories like dried out pork chops or meat loaf.
The mildly spiced salsa enlivened the slightly dry pork.
Nor did hot cherry peppers in vinegar manage to resuscitate tough, dry pork chops.
