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Illustrative serving of se’i sapi: reddish-brown smoked beef strips with steamed rice, cooked greens and sambal.
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Se'i (Timorese smoked meat)

Smoked meat of Timor and Rote in eastern Indonesia: salted strips of beef or pork cooked over kosambi-wood embers under fresh kosambi leaves, served warm with rice, sambal lu'at and greens.

Rote Ndao · Traditional method
· Meat
Illustrative documentary image of maize-coated, smoke-dried Pitina-inspired pork-and-lamb balls described in the cited home video; not a validated product, safe-to-eat endpoint, or Pitina IGP item.
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Pitina-inspired pork and lamb meatballs

Small maize-coated meatballs in a modern pork-and-lamb variant associated with Pitina; this is a documentary account, not a validated method or a claim of Pitina IGP.

Friuli Venezia Giulia
Meat
An editorial depiction of smoked kooyang, with the head removed and the curved eel resting on dark slate.

Gunditjmara smoked eel

Short-finned eels, kooyang, smoked for a sustained period in the hollows of large trees at Budj Bim in south-western Victoria, a combined heat, smoke and drying method of the Gunditjmara people.

Kurtonitj, Budj Bim · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative serving still life of a whole rounded bone-in Presunto de Barroso-style ham and thin slices with deep red meat and pale fat; no producer or certification is implied.
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Presunto de Barroso

Smoked dry-cured pork ham of the Barroso highlands of northern Portugal: hand-salted, sometimes coated with olive oil and paprika, then smoked slowly over oak or broom in the cold mountain air.

Barroso · Traditional method
· Meat
Two golden-brown Arbroath smokies on an ivory platter, one opened to show its creamy flakes.

Arbroath smokie

Arbroath smokies are whole haddock dry-salted, paired by the tail and hot-smoked in a protected coastal area. Their recorded history links Auchmithie and Arbroath, though the exact origin is unsettled.

Auchmithie · Traditional method
Fish and seafood
A New York deli pastrami sandwich on rye, piled with pink-red smoked beef and served with mustard.
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Pastrami

Pastrami is beef brined, rubbed with spices, smoked and steamed, the New York Jewish deli meat served hot and hand-carved on rye. Its origin is argued between competing accounts.

New York City
· Meat
A whole Ngaphak fish split open and flattened, smoked golden brown on a mesh sieve.
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Ngaphak

Ngaphak is fish split, flattened and roasted and smoked over an open flame on a wire net or woven bamboo mesh, as practised by fish processors around Loktak Lake in Manipur, India.

Loktak Lake, Manipur
· Fish and seafood
Coarse red-brown merkén seasoning in a small ceramic bowl, with dried red chiles beside it.

Merkén

Merkén is the Mapuche seasoning of dried, smoked and ground ají cacho de cabra chile, sometimes with toasted coriander seed and salt, made in the Maule and La Araucanía regions of Chile.

Maule region, Chile
· Condiments
Illustrative finished Baranjski kulen sausage, a dark brown oval casing cut to show a compact red interior, with slices on a wooden board.
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Baranjski kulen

Baranjski kulen is a Croatian protected fermented pork sausage seasoned with sweet and hot paprika, garlic and white pepper, stuffed into a pig’s caecum called katica, cold-smoked and matured.

Baranja
· Meat
Small whole smoked freshwater fish arranged on a shallow woven tray.
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Leirou

Leirou is fish smoked in a prepared kiln or room by processors around Loktak Lake in Manipur, India, a method the local survey keeps apart from open-flame ngaphak.

Loktak Lake, Manipur
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative rendering of Cameroonian Kumkum as round dried cassava balls described in IITA references; color and surface texture are interpretive because exact appearance is not specified.
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Kumkum

Kumkum is a Cameroonian fermented-cassava preparation described as balls dried over a fireplace and stored or milled into flour. Sources also describe a sun-dried market form; they give no Kumkum-specific safety endpoint.

Cameroon · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Amber hot-smoked salmon fillet with flaky cooked flesh on a plain ceramic platter with dill and lemon.
Elevated risk

Hot-smoked salmon

Salmon fillets salted or dry-brined, rested, then cooked and flavoured in a smoker. The method is a cooking process, and the endpoint decides its safety.


Fish and seafood
Whole smoke-dried chipotle chiles on a cream plate against a warm ivory background.
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Chipotle

Chipotle is a ripe jalapeño pepper smoke-dried in a wood-fired cocedor. Camargo, Chihuahua, documents a large-scale version of the process; its source accounts do not establish a complete home batch or validated safety endpoint.

Camargo · Traditional method
· Vegetables
A fully dried sea cucumber (bêche-de-mer) on a plain ceramic dish; illustrative product image, not a specific historical species or community practice.

Bêche-de-mer (trepang)

Sea cucumber cleaned, boiled and dried, sometimes with smoke, into a long-keeping trade product; Makassan processing in Arnhem Land is documented from at least the eighteenth century.

Arnhem Land · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Fine deep red Pimentón de la Vera in a ceramic dish beside two dried red peppers.

Pimentón de la Vera

Spanish smoked paprika from Capsicum peppers dried over oak or holm-oak smoke in a dryer called a secadero, then ground. Protected by a designation of origin in La Vera.

La Vera, Cáceres · Traditional method
· Condiments
Thin slices of mahogany smoked reindeer meat on a shallow birchwood plate, with a smoked piece behind.
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Suovas

Salted reindeer meat hung in the smoke of a lávvu fire over willow, birch or juniper, then cooled and in some Sámi communities dried outdoors into travelling provisions.

Sápmi · Traditional method
· Meat
Photograph of Tinapa.
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Tinapa

Filipino smoked fish, most often scad, sardinella or milkfish, brined and smoked, and eaten whole or flaked into other dishes.

Philippines · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Steamed Norwegian pinnekjøtt lamb ribs with boiled potatoes and kålrotstappe on a plain ceramic plate.
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Norwegian pinnekjøtt

Norwegian Christmas lamb ribs, salted, matured and dried, then soaked and steamed over birch twigs. Smoked and unsmoked versions are both made.

Western Norway (Vestlandet) · Traditional method
· Meat
Photograph of Smoke-dried mushrooms over a hearth.
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Smoke-dried mushrooms over a hearth

Hearth-dried mushrooms are dried on shelves above a cooking fire, so heat and smoke reach them. Tanzanian records describe the method; a Vietnamese study tested smoke-dried shiitake for fuel-dependent contaminants.

Tanzania
Thin rosy-red slices of Montréal smoked meat with a visible fat seam and peppered edges on a warm white plate.
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Montréal smoked meat

Montréal smoked meat is a brisket-centred Jewish deli specialty shaped by migration and Montréal's restaurant culture. This entry documents reported commercial traditions and one deli's account; it is not a home-curing method.

Montréal
· Meat
Photograph of Smoked salt.

Smoked salt

Flaky or coarse sea salt takes on hickory smoke in a pellet grill. A shallow tray lets the smoke reach the crystals before they cool for airtight storage.

Modern method
· Condiments
Hard smoked and dried tuna pieces with fibrous cut faces and thin shavings on an earthenware plate.
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Maldive fish

Maldive fish is a hard, smoke-dried tuna product made in the Maldives and traded especially to Sri Lanka, where it is known as umbalakada. Cooks shave or pound it into a concentrated savory seasoning for sambols, curries and other dishes.

Maldives · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
A hard, dark smoke-dried Arabushi bonito block rests on a wooden board beside a few thin bonito shavings and a traditional hand-shaver.
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Arabushi (smoke-dried bonito)

Japanese skipjack tuna cooked, then repeatedly smoked and dried over a wood fire by the hand-fired tebiyama method into a hard block for shaving into dashi: the first stage of katsuobushi.

Nakiri, Daio, Shima · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Dry pale katsuobushi flakes in a shallow ceramic dish beside a dark, hard honkarebushi block.
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Bonito flakes (katsuobushi)

Katsuobushi is skipjack tuna cooked, smoked and dried into a hard block that is shaved into flakes for dashi and toppings. Some styles stop at the smoke-dried stage; others receive carefully managed mold maturation.

Japan · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
An illustrative open stick grill with whole fish above embers; this generic reconstruction is not a documentary image or a preservation guide.
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Moquém

Moquém is the Brazilian Indigenous method of laying meat or fish on a grill of wooden sticks to roast, dry or smoke it, and also the name of the grill itself.

Brazil
Illustrative category depiction of a whole cured ham; the source does not preserve the exact appearance of Cato's ham.
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Cato’s salted ham

Cato the Elder records a second-century BCE sequence for salting, air-drying, and smoking ham. This historical account is not a validated modern curing protocol.

Historical attestation
· Meat
Soft ivory Altai aarchi beside irregular golden-brown smoked kurut pieces, one broken to show its pale interior.

Aarchi and kurut (Altai dried curd)

A two-stage Altai dairy preparation: sour chegen is heated into soft aarchi, then portions are drained, pressed and traditionally smoked into firm kurut.

Altai Republic
Dairy
Cut 'nduja sausage with a smooth, spreadable interior and a portion on bread.
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'Nduja di Spilinga

Soft, spreadable Calabrian pork sausage made with a great deal of red chilli and fatty pork, stuffed into natural casings, sometimes smoked and matured while staying soft.

Spilinga · Traditional method
· Meat
A coarse dark brown axone fermented soybean preparation on a banana leaf.
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Axone

Soybeans boiled soft and fermented in a leaf-lined basket by the hearth, then in many Naga households pounded, wrapped in leaves and fermented again into a dark, pungent seasoning paste.

Nagaland · Traditional method
· Legumes and seeds
An illustrative serving of thin white Suusac beside an understated darkened vessel; not a documentary image of a specific historical batch.
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Suusac (Somali fermented camel milk)

Suusac is a traditional fermented camel-milk drink of Somali pastoral communities in Kenya and Somalia, soured spontaneously in smoke-treated vessels into a thin, acid, smoky milk.

Isiolo District · Traditional method
· Dairy
Dark, wrinkled smoked plums in a cream bowl.

Suska sechlońska

Małopolska plums smoked and part-dried over a wood fire in a regional kiln for several days, giving a dark, concentrated fruit with a protected name.

Sechna and neighbouring communes · Traditional method
Fruit
Finished glossy smoked kiełbasa lisiecka ring with large ham pieces visible in its sliced cross-section.
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Kiełbasa lisiecka

A protected pork sausage associated with Liszki and Czernichów; its application describes commercial curing and smoking, not a home batch.

Liszki and Czernichów · Traditional method
Meat
Whole hot-smoked mackerel with a small opened section showing its cooked, flaky flesh.
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Smoked mackerel

Whole mackerel brined for up to a day, then hot-smoked over beech and alder until the oily flesh takes colour and smoke, in a Czech smokehouse recipe.

Czechia · Modern method
Fish and seafood
Thin slices of amber-brown smoked daikon pickle on a ceramic plate, with a whole iburigakko behind.

Iburigakko

Iburigakko is Akita pickled daikon dried with smoke before it is fermented in rice bran.

Akita Prefecture · Traditional method
Vegetables