If you’re a pig in Iowa, there’s hardly any chance that a kindly spider named Charlotte will save your … um … bacon. Despite a reputation for … um … piggyness, your place in the food chain is less eater than eaten.
But if you’re a very lucky pig in Iowa, you will be raised by a kindly farmer who provides pigs for La Quercia, a nationally renowned, artisan-cured meat producer based in Norwalk. These pigs get to be pigs, rooting around in the open air, not being injected with non-therapeutic antibiotics and generally wallowing in the good, if brief, life. If you’ve got to meet your maker as a ham, La Quercia is the (prosciutto) maker you want.
To promote La Quercia and to honor the delicious sacrifices of the mighty made-in-America pig, La Quercia co-founder Herb Eckhouse will travel the country on Herb’s Ham Independence Ride 2012. There will be prosciutto-based events hosted by retailers from Chicago to Ann Arbor to Philly to NYC and will feature “fantastic prosciutto sales, special tasting events, cured meat classes and general mayhem.”
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