Tonight, I was at Wegman’s buying prosciutto for the saltimbocca I plan on making for tomorrow. While standing in front of the section that holds the cured meats, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by the Jamon Iberico, a cured ham made from the Spanish, black Iberian pig which is $98/pound. Now, I don’t want you thinking I just eat classy, expensive stuff all the time. That isn’t true at all, but this stuff was $98/pound…really now?! I saw this before, but I stopped myself before even thinking about buying some. Tonight however, that Jamon Iberico felt like forbidden fruit, and I had to have it…
So, I ended up getting a couple slices. It was good but I wish I could point out the little subtleties that differentiates this from other Spanish cured hams, but I just can’t. I could point out that it was a little bit more moist than the Wegman’s prosciutto that I bought but that was about it.
It was tasty, but $98/pound tasty? I’m not sure, I’ll have to get back to you on that once I’ve developed more of a tongue for these things… Tagged: expensive, ham, spanish
for sure if you think $98 /pound it becomes insane, but to try a few pieces at $5 doesn't seem so bad.
then again i'm used to paying $3 for a tiny bit of imported cheese just because it's taiwan. costco has a pack of proscuitto for $12 that i'm pretty addicted to.
that was exactly my mindset when i got it haha.