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JAMÓN

WHAT IS JAMÓN?

amón quite simply is the Spanish word for ham. “We call it jamón when the legs of the pork have been cured naturally, leaving the hams hanging to air dry,” explains Alberto Andrés of La Central, a Spanish delicatessen and bodega in Melbourne. “In Spain we differentiate between the shoulder and the leg – when it’s the leg we call it jamón. When it’s the shoulder

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