Only Yesterday,

I mentioned a expensive piece of ham,

you might have to hit the Older Posts after yesterdays trip to London, and then today I find out about Florencio Sanchidrián who has been slicing Iberian ham (jamon) for the last three decades and today his name is synonymous with the Spanish delicacy. The 55-year-old is regarded as the world’s best ham slicer in the world, and he charges accordingly for his services – a reported $4,000 to slice a leg of ham, photographs Florencio Sanchidrián/Facebook,

born in the city of Avila, Spain, Sanchidrián trained as a professional bullfighter in his youth, but eventually put his red cape away and moved to Barcelona to work as a waiter. One day, he started cutting ham and simply fell in love with it. He started taking jamon slicing courses, and before long, he was winning slicing competitions as well as national and international awards. Florencio is now known as an ambassador of Iberian ham around the world, and he tours the five continents “with a leg of ham under his arm” at least once or twice a year, “You must know the product inside out—its breeding and the area where the Iberian pig usually lives and grazes,” Florencio told VICE Munchies, “Before cutting each piece of ham, you should check all of the corresponding labels because they provide all the information we need to know about that specific piece—everything from the birthplace of the pig to where it was stored, plus the humidity and air temperature. Besides all this, a good cortador de jamones should try to manipulate the joint as little as possible and when serving the meat, help people appreciate it with all of their senses.” just as I finished typing this I realised something, we had featured him before in December 2016, if you go to the link you will see a video of him in action, I wonder if the Japanese buyer of the ham we featured yesterday will call on Florencio to carve it?