Bonares will host the final of the Spanish Ham Cutters Championship

SPECIALIST ham cutters from all over Spain will demonstrate their skills in cutting Iberian ham this weekend (March 4 and 5) in Bonares, Huelva.

Eight of the best ham cutters in Spain will meet this weekend in the quiet town of Bonares, located to the east of the city of Huelva, and will demonstrate the good art of cutting Iberian ham in a contest that will name the master cutter of Iberian ham from Spain.

The eight cutters classified for the final of the Spanish Ham Cutters Championship are the following: Santiago Díaz (El Viso (Córdoba); Francisco Javier Ruiz, from Cobisa (Toledo); Alberto Sánchez, from Los Santos de Maimona (Badajoz) José Antonio Romano, from Utrera (Seville), Antonio J. Ortuño, from Huercal de Almería (Almería), Antonio Fonta, from Torreperogil (Jaén), Juan Carlos Garrido, from Dos Hermanas (Seville), and Francisco Ortiz, from Mijas Coast (Malaga).

The art of cutting cured ham requires knowledge and special skill, and the eight contestants will be judged next Sunday March 5 by a panel of experts who will base their results mainly on the way the ham is cut, as well as on the quality of the ham. dishes made with it.

According to the deputy mayor of Bonares, the championship will be held in two days, on March 4 and 5, and has two very different parts, a playful part and activities parallel to the championship, and the grand final that will be held on Sunday.

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