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The World’s Greatest Ham May Come From...New Jersey?
msn ^
Posted on 12/09/2021 12:19:45 PM PST by mylife
Foodies go to great lengths to get their lips on the world’s finest ham. But if you wouldn’t transport prize boar sperm from Portugal, invest $200,000 to import your own pigs, raise litters free range on organic grains and imported acorns, and dry age their hind legs by hand for years—well, then you’re not as obsessed as Rodrigo Duarte, owner and butcher at Caseiro e Bom.
The son of pig farmers in Portugal, Duarte grew up raising and butchering hogs, but didn’t have the opportunity to open his own place until he emigrated to Newark, New Jersey’s Portuguese enclave, the Ironbound district, where he worked at a supermarket meat counter while saving for his own butcher shop. “I didn’t really sleep back then,” Duarte says. “I worked long shifts, then stayed up all night making my own sausages.”
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alentejanohogs; ham; newjersey; rodrigoduarte; worldsbestham
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You go Duarte!!
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:19:45 PM PST
by
mylife
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:20:20 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
In 2010, he bought a bodega and converted the back into a smokehouse and every inch of ceiling space into a pork lover’s paradise, dangling dozens of ham legs you have to duck beneath to approach the counter. Then he bought a farm where he raised free-range domestic pigs, before becoming the only person in the United States ever allowed to import and breed true black Portuguese Alentejano hogs.
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:22:59 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: mylife
No, Bill Shatner is Canadian.
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:23:09 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: All
Ooops, this is an excerpt, more at link.
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:23:50 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:26:06 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: mylife
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:26:21 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
( State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims: Guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide vax experiments?)
To: mylife
Worlds Greatest Ham from NJ?
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:26:54 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: mylife
I tried some of that acorn fed pork in alentejo in 2017. It was so awesome I mentioned it to a couple local pig farmers. Neither seemed to think it acquiring some and raising them on acorns would be worth the trouble.
To: posterchild
I never thought acorns made em that tasty, they dont make deer tasty.
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:34:25 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: mylife
New Jersey? Talk about lookin’ up a hog’s butt for a ham sandwich.
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:37:42 PM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: gundog
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:38:50 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: mylife
I am NOT from New Jersey!
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:42:43 PM PST
by
G Larry
(The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
To: mylife
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:46:03 PM PST
by
Freedumb
To: G Larry
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:46:42 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: Freedumb
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:47:29 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: mylife
The worse thing they ever did to pork was breed it as ‘The Other White Meat’.
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:53:43 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: Freedumb
No, “Not Taylor Ham” - Pork Roll! :-)
To: GaltAdonis
Taylor ham, yo. You must be one of those 609 area codes
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:55:49 PM PST
by
Swanks
When we want a gourmet ham for a special occasion, we always go with
Nueske's.
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:56:51 PM PST
by
rxsid
(HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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