Ham history

ハムの歴史

ハムがいつ頃、どこでつくられるようになったのかは、はっきりしていませんが、家畜である豚が飼われるようになったのは紀元前7000年頃と推測されます。

農耕文化の広がりで人の生活は変化していきましたが、地域の気候により家畜が盛んとなり、効率的な保存食方法として生ハムが生まれ進化しました。  
詳細な発祥は不明ですが、家畜の発生とほぼ時を同じくしてその歴史は始まったと見られています。

 

紀元前3500年ごろにはバビロニアやエジプトに生ハムが生まれたといわれています。 古代中国では、4800年前から豚が飼育され、「鹹(ハン)」というハムらしきものが作られていたといいます。ハムの語源はこの「鹹(ハン)」という説もありますが、定かではありません。
 
古来の製法は、現在よりもずっと単純な作り方で、塩漬け、乾燥、または両者を合わせた方法だったと考えられています。
日本における歴史はまだ浅く、最初は幕末にオランダから長崎に持ち込まれました。

Choose the correct answer.

1. Ham history

Domestication of pigs for food dates back to 4900 B.C. in _____________ and by 1500 B.C., Europe had followed suit.

@ China
A Italia
B Germany

2. 「Jamón ibérico

Jamón ibérico is a cured ham produced only in ___________.

@ Italia
A Spain
B France

3. This peculiar breed of pigs, famous for their ____________ hooves ("pata negra") as well as their black skin and hair, are descendants of the Mediterranean wild boar.

@ brown
A white
B black

4. Every Spaniard eats about ____________ kilograms of cured ham per year.

@ 3 
A 5
B 7

5. That is __________ what the Italians eat.

@ triple
A double
B four times

6. The people of the Iberian Peninsula ate pork and ham in their diet, even in the _____________.

@ modern age
A mid-age
B Roman era

7. It is made from the Black Iberian Pig also called the cerdo negro or black pig, the only breed of pig that naturally seeks, opens and eats mainly ___________.

@ acorns
A ginkgo nuts
B much room

8.Technically, ham is the __________ and buttock of any animal that is slaughtered for meat, but the term is usually restricted to a cut of pork, the haunch of a pig or boar.

@ prop odium
A abdomen
B thigh

9.Prosciutto (IPA: [proˈʃutːo]) is the Italian word for ham, used in English to refer to dry-cured ham (prosciutto crudo).
In American English usage, the term is used more narrowly for a ____________ ham from central and northern Italy, the two most common kinds being Prosciutto di Parma and Prosciutto di San Daniele.

@ dry‐cured
A smoked
B smoke drying

10. Among Easter foods the most significant is the Easter lamb, which is in many places the main dish of the Easter Sunday meal. Corresponding to the Passover lamb and to Christ, the Lamb of God, this dish has become a central symbol of Easter. Also popular among European and Americans on Easter is ham, because the pig was considered a symbol of ___________ in pre-Christian Europe.

@ god
A money
B luck


http://homecooking.about.com/od/foodstorage/a/hamstorage.htm

http://www.infohub.com/TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/11255.html

http://spanishfood.about.com/od/sausages/a/jamonintro.htm

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