Pig in Colombia

-A Gastronomic account of the Colombian Ham industry Pasto, a town located in the southwest of read about Colombia is the main place in the Colombian industry of the planning of hams. Actually, Pasto has a record on the planning of pig items that extends back to the 50's when a Basque builder, called Jose Torrontegui Alday, aged 28, came to Colombia.He was born in Bilbao and he decided to reside in Colombia attracted by the thought of learning to be a designer. He labored in Bogota and Cali until the 60's when he was welcomed by a friend to visit Pasto, the administrative centre of NariAo where he lived until 2003.The record of the ham sector in Pasto began when he wanted to his guests during a celebration in Pasto, a ham that he has dry-cured in his house for 6 months. The friends were so attracted to the style of the chicken, strange at the moment in Pasto, that they stimulate him to start out their own business advertising the product.-Success in Colombia of the Serrano Ham prepared in Pasto After ages on the business, the Serrano pork that is prepared in Pasto has succeed in the Colombian industry. The hams are commercialized in Bogota and in the rest of the nation. The solution of its achievement is simple: it is the only form of Serrano pork in Colombia that's organized following the Spanish tradition for its preparation which means that the Serrano Ham from Pasto is not developing during its preparation process.-Ham preparation in Colombia, a that comes from Spain The types of hams that are applied during the preparation are Iberian people. The hams are prepared in the same way that they have always historically been produced in Spain: utilising the fingers and without any technology. Nowadays, sealed chambers and specific lamps are employed during the drying procedure for the ham to regulate the temperature. But, in Pasto, the ham is organized exactly the same way because it was, 400 years ago: put and healed over eight weeks.