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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spot on Spain's culinary ladder. There are lesser versions, but the most highly esteemed is made from an indigenous breed of pig called the ibérico. During the last months of their lives, the pigs are allowed to roam freely over a landscape known as the dehesa, feasting on nothing but grass and acorns. The resulting hams, which are dry cured for an average of two years, boast a rich, full-flavored meat that is simultaneously sweet and salty, nutty and grassy. In Jabugo and nearby Aracena, two towns renowned for producing some of the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...conference was all talk. In fact, it was hard to ignore the glee with which attendees set upon the nearly endless plates of ham. Not just at the gala dinner on Thursday night, but at daily morning breaks for ham sandwiches, and at the closing lunch, held on the dehesa, where the jamón ran as freely as the wine - no one, it seemed, tired of eating the stuff. Standing beneath a cork tree, Piero Sardo, president of the anti-fast food organization Slow Food, reached for yet another slice. "Delicious," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...this directive] a new youth center, with a theater, concert hall, workshops and mediatheque, where kids can surf the Internet, watch movies and listen to music. The keys have just been handed over to the first of 5,000 new houses, the bulk of them moderately priced, in La Dehesa Vieja (the Old Meadow). By the time that development is complete next year, the Madrid metro will have extended its Line 10 to include three new stations in Sanse, which has become essentially an airy, upscale barrio of one of Europe's most dynamic capitals. "We have a well-educated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Spain Sustain? | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...unable to deliver on that grand promise. Indeed, the season of testing is already upon him. The coming challenges in domestic, foreign and economic policy will determine whether his "citizen's socialism" will work. "Up until now he's been throwing carrots to the masses," says Guillermo de la Dehesa, a prominent Spanish banker and economist. "It's only now that he faces tough issues, and we're all waiting to see how he does." One of Zapatero's first tasks will be to establish his credentials in foreign policy, especially the Iraq war and the strains within the European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Zen Of Zapatero | 9/19/2004 | See Source »

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