{"id":5967,"date":"2019-11-21T15:18:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5967"},"modified":"2019-11-21T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:18:45","slug":"living-up-to-its-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/living-up-to-its-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"Living up to its reputation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8230;our Mule foot pigs are sometimes called \u201cthe ham breed\u201d and now we know why. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ham.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ham-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Thistlehill Farm Ham\" class=\"wp-image-5968\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ham-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ham-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ham-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ham-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ham.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Photo by Curt Humphreys<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Curt topped the ham with chutney and cloves and the family pronounced the results excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n Spain this would be called an Ib\u00e9rico ham&#8230;a great delicacy at $400 or\n more. There they fatten on acorns and while we can\u2019t claim that, by \ncoincidence there were acorns on the ground in the pasture as these pigs\n matured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flavor is,  after all, less a function of genetics than feed. But it was this we  were aiming for when we selected the Mule foot pig! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;our Mule foot pigs are sometimes called \u201cthe ham breed\u201d and now we know why. Curt topped the ham with chutney and cloves and the family pronounced the results excellent. In Spain this would be called an Ib\u00e9rico ham&#8230;a great delicacy at $400 or more. There they fatten on acorns and while we can\u2019t claim that, by coincidence there were acorns on the ground in the pasture as these pigs matured. Flavor is, after all, less a function of genetics than feed. But it was this we were aiming for when we selected the Mule foot pig! David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,103,35,11,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david","category-ham","category-meat","category-pigs-2","category-pork"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}