[puh-strah-mee] 
| a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking. |
| pas·tra·mi (pə-strä'mē) n. pl. pas·tra·mis A highly seasoned smoked cut of beef, usually taken from the shoulder. [Yiddish pastrame, from Romanian pastramā, from pāstra, to preserve, from Vulgar Latin *parsitāre, to spare, save, from parsus, past participle of Latin parcere, to be thrifty with.] |