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Jamon Iberico (split from SF board)
Someone told me recently that the italian ham (Parma, San Daniele) industry has been lobbying heavily against allowing spanish iberico ham into the US market.
Anyway, it is just a matter of time that the product will make it into the country. Although as you say it is not likely that the top range ham pieces will make it out of Spain anytime soon unless demand from abroad is ready to pay big for it. We must consider that top range ham has a very limited production due to the breeding characteristics (iberico de bellota pigs are fed in the wild and every single pig must be accounted for a certain amount of surface).
For those of you who want to know a little more about spanish "iberico de bellota" ham, here are a few links:
Jamon iberico at the Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%C3%B...
Iberico Spanish Serrano Ham Production
http://www.ibergour.com/en/productos/...
"Pata Negra" Spanish Serrano Ham
http://www.ibergour.com/en/productos/...
