The pig first evolved in Asia around two and one half million years ago before extending its habitat north into Russia and Japan and west into India, Mongolia, Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and eventually into Europe. Sigue leyendo
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CHRISTMAS RECIPE
BLACK IBERIAN PORK CHEEK LACQUERED WITH CHESTNUT HONEY
Black Iberian pork is of top gastronomic quality and is especially appropiate for cooking in stews, especially with legumes. Sigue leyendo
CARME RUSCADELLA AND PORK
The Sant Pau restaurant is built on the personal and professional development of two people from Sant Pol de Mar, Toni Balam and Carme Ruscalleda. They started working together in 1975 in the grocery store owned by Ramón Ruscalleda and Nuria Serra. It was from there that they gathered up the courage to create the Sant Pau – Carme Ruscalleda in 1988, a restaurant that is committed to quality and originality. Sigue leyendo
SLAUGHTERHOUSE, THE BOOKSHOP
This old butcher´s, which still has its counter and its hooks on the wall, was named after the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegutl. This butchery bookshop calls us to film screenings, several workshops and its gourmet literary club . Sigue leyendo
THE FORME OF CURY: PYGGES IN SAWSE SAWGE
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The Forme of Cury is one of the oldest known instructive cookery manuscripts in the English language. It is believed to have been written at the end of the fourteenth century by the master-cooks of Richard II (1377-1399). Sigue leyendo
RELIGION AND MEAT
The three main monotheistic religions -Christianity, Judaism and Islam- not only share the belief that one God exists but they also have meat restrictions. Whereas, pork meat is forbidden in Jewish dietary laws -kashrut- and Islamic dietary law -Halal-, Christianity also restricts meat consumption in some liturgical feasts. Sigue leyendo