Lisa Featherby recipe for home-cured pork with lentil salad. At its simplest, curing meat requires nothing more than salt, but the addition of sweeteners, such as sugar or maple syrup, as well as ...

Curing meat is why humans could stay put when there was nothing to grow, kill or steal. It is how conquerors and discoverers lasted while they traveled the world. But the refrigerator and the modern ...