{"id":1708,"date":"2016-04-27T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/fantastic-iberian-ham-tour\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:42:29","slug":"fantastic-iberian-ham-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Iberian ham tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday, I ran another Iberian ham tour to the Sierra of Aracena. We had a superb sunny day with the countryside looking wonderful after the heavy rains last week. We spent around 5 hours on the organic Iberian pig farm that I have written about before. We went first to the field the farm&#8217;s boar had just started getting reacqauinted with some of the breeding sows. Below is a photo of the lucky gentleman!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1919 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0636.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0636-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p>Next we walked to the area where we saw litters of 5-week old piglets. They will be weaned off their mothers when they are 2 months old.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1920 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0638.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0638-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p>We then walked through an area where we saw the pigs that will be turned into hams next year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1921 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0643.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0643.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0643-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p>After the walking around everyone was glad to sit down to a fantastic lunch with everything we ate produced on the farm. The ham and other cured meats that they produce are of the utmost quality as was the barbucued &#8220;pluma&#8221; Iberina pork. This cut is the final part of the loin.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1922 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0646.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0646.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0646-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Wbdb-MNpvNM\/VyDfnqX2q0I\/AAAAAAAABKE\/O72t2pGzUcYClyApG5pnhpH9WG0dhMr_QCLcB\/s1600\/DSC_0647.JPG\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1923 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/having-lunch-on-Iberiam-pig-farm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/having-lunch-on-Iberiam-pig-farm.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/having-lunch-on-Iberiam-pig-farm-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Wbdb-MNpvNM\/VyDfnqX2q0I\/AAAAAAAABKE\/O72t2pGzUcYClyApG5pnhpH9WG0dhMr_QCLcB\/s1600\/DSC_0647.JPG\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iberian ham tour<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I ran another Iberian ham tour to the Sierra of Aracena. We had a superb sunny day with the countryside looking wonderful after the heavy rains last week. We spent around 5 hours on the organic Iberian pig farm that I have written about before. We went first to the field the farm&#8217;s boar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}