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Pastrami is a popular deli meat made from a highly seasoned cut of smoked meat--usually beef. To make pastrami, one usually begins with a slab of uncooked meat. That meat is typically first pickled in a thick, salty, brine solution, which creates, when using red meat, what is known as corned beef.
Pastrami is made by smoking corned beef. The process of smoking adds flavor to the meat. Corned beef is made by soaking beef brisket in a salty brine, along with sugar and spices, for several weeks. Before the invention of refrigeration, soaking a meat in brine was one of the two methods for preventing meat from spoiling.