{"id":3105,"date":"2021-05-27T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2021-05-27T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:49:26","slug":"iberian-ham-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=3105","title":{"rendered":"Iberian Ham Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I went to the Sierra of Aracena for the first time in over 9 months . This is where I take\u00a0 people on my Iberian ham tours. It was great to be back in this wonderful area of natural beauty which in normal times I visit at least 40 times every year. I went to visit an organic farm where they raise pure-bred Iberian pigs which are acorn-fed in the last 3-4 months of their existence. I may decide to include this farm on my Iberian ham tour in the future. Below are a few of the photos that I took.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3107 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_103104-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3108 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_105412-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra de Aracena panoramic view\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3109 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_111807-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Iberian pigs feeding\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As well as spending time int he countryside we went to the facility where the hans are cured. As you an see in the photo below, a lot of the hams have a good coating of penicillin mould. This mould helps to draw out moisture in the ham and shows that the ambient humidity is not too high or too low. This allows for the ham too cure at a constant rate allowing for all the wondeful flavours to develop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3106 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_121601-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Iberina hams curing\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_121601-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_121601-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_121601-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_121601-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_121601-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_121601-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20210526_121601-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I went to the Sierra of Aracena for the first time in over 9 months . This is where I take\u00a0 people on my Iberian ham tours. It was great to be back in this wonderful area of natural beauty which in normal times I visit at least 40 times every year. I went [&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-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","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=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}