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Golden trotters

January 27, 2010  •  Andalucia, Lead2  •  0 Comments

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SPAIN’s most delicious gourmet product is now turning heads in London.

For the world’s “most expensive” Iberico ham is up for grabs in the food hall of Selfridges.

Costing a cool 2000 euros for a seven-kilo leg the Extremadura-produced meat has been salted and cured for three years.

It is sold in hand-made wooden boxes wrapped in aprons fitted by Spanish tailors.

The legs even come with their own DNA certificate as proof of authenticity.

Selfridges fresh food buyer, Andrew Cavanna, said: “Every single gram will be savoured as one of life’s incredible gourmet luxuries.”

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Golden trotters

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The Olive Press is the English language newspaper for Andalucia. Local news from Costa del Sol and inland Andalucia plus national news from around Spain. A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge and growing expatriate community in southern Spain - 29,000 copies printed monthly with an estimated readership, including the website, of more than 170,000 people a month.