Mojama

Mojama (Mosciame in Italy) is a mediterranean delicacy consisting of filleted salt-cured tuna.

The word mojama comes from the Arabic musama (dry), but its origins are Phoenician, specifically from Gdr (Gadir, Cádiz today), the first Phoenician settlement in the Western Mediterranean Sea. The Phoenicians had learned to dry tuna in sea salt to prepare it for trade.