More than 30 months ago, we set out on this adventure of salting and curing Iberian ham. Recovering part of our own history – our grandfather was from the Guijuelo area of Salamanca – and maintaining methods passed down to us by our father, we decided that the climate in Monreal del Campo (Teruel) could […]
LA ESTRELLA DEL JAMÓN
Welcome! This is the blog for “La estrella del jamón”, a commercial slogan that will soon swell the ranks of brands from Mariano Gómez, S.A. and Jamones Sierra Palomera, S.L. More than 40 years ago, the Gómez family grandfather, along with his son, founded the company that bore his name, Mariano Gómez, devoted to making ham.
CHANGE OR DIE?
More than 40 years ago, Mariano Gómez, S.A. was set up as a company. Our grandfather, Mariano Gómez, and our father Luis, had already spent many years curing hams but it was not until 1973 that they set up the company we are currently running as the third generation.
HAM FROM A SOW A SIMPLE MARKETING STRATEGY
One of the widest-spread fallacies in the world of ham is that ham from sows is better quality that ham from boars. This legend probably springs from confusing the terms jamón de hembra with jamón de cerda as they both imply ham made from a female pig.