Corning beef for an Irish feast - Pt. 1 Recipe

This meal has been coming together for over a year now. Last February, I received my March 2009 Martha Stewart Living magazine and there was a recipe for curing your own corned beef. I have never had corned beef, so it seemed like a good experiment. The ingredient list was rather straight forward except for one small item... pink curing salt. Being that this is an Irish dish, I thought who better to know where to find this ingredient than Irish people living in Sofia. So, I got on the horn to all the lads and lassies that I could find and nothing! Next idea, since it is also used for sausage making, I decided to call Andy the sausage guy in Sofia... again... nothing. Then out of desperation, I called my Mom to see if she could…