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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Nathan's PAW 45: Spanish hams
From: Nathan Wajsman <n.wajsman@chello.nl>
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 18:28:32 +0100
References: <000501c3a6ab$fa3e9650$d49e8ed4@castle>

Thanks Felix. I really should have corrected the green cast or used B&W.
Fortunately I am in Seville almost every week, so I will be able to go back and
do it again (and also eat some of the stuff, and I will look for the ones you
recommend). Another culinary discovery I have recently made in Spain is the Luis
Felipe brandy, which is simply an orgasmic experience.

Nathan

Félix López de Maturana wrote:

> >This week we go back to Spain. One of things I love down there is of course
> >the food; and few of the Spanish foods are as photogenic as the big hams
> >which are found in even the most modest bar. They usually hang from the
> >ceiling, and when the time comes to use them (for tapas), then the ham is
> >put in a kind of wooden vice and sliced thinly as needed. My wife says I am
> >obsessed with these hams, and she is right. So 3 of the 4
>
> Nice pictures but with strong color cast! Specially the green cast of the
> fluorescent light. Ask someone in the next trip to let you have a Jabugo
> ham, those of black pigs, breaded only with acorns and in which there is a
> mix of grease and flesh. Ask for Sanchez Carvajal hams and, I bet you, if
> there is not the best ham you got in your life I eat my basque beret!
>
> Felix,
>
> who's running out home to get some Jabugo inmediatly (It's at fifty meters
> from home in a bar called La Viña (The Vineyard) with some splendid wine of
> Cariñena) Your pictures developed my artistic sensibility but make me hungry
> too..
>
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In reply to: Message from Félix López de Maturana <fmaturana@euskalnet.net> ([Leica] RE: Nathan's PAW 45: Spanish hams)