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ROMAN COINS IN THE SHAPE OF A HAM

Coins are valuable, and in every civilization they have been minted with symbols of elements that were important to their citizens. Well, you may be surprised to find out that the Romans that settled in Hispania minted coins in the shape of legs of ham. This would no doubt indicate that ham was a very valuable and coveted good.

It was the Iberian tribes, before the arrival of the

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The taste umami in acorn fed Iberico ham

Umami is a Japanese word that means ‘tasty and flavoursome’. In Japan umami is considered the fifth flavour, a taste which is not salty, sweet, sour or bitter. This new flavour was discovered by the Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda in 1908.

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Ikeda was a professor at the Imperial University of Tokio, and when he was studying the famous Japanese soup called dashi, made with the kombu

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