panceta or bacon

Savoy cabbage with smoked bacon

A rasher recipe

"Where can i buy proper bacon?" is a question I am often asked by British people holidaying in Spain. It is undeniably the case that to buy the bacon people living in northern Europe are used to; in Spain, is not easy.

Too often rashers of bacon in Spain are comprised of ninety per cent fat and ten per cent meat. In a land where pork is so popular and where almost all of the pig is used in cooking, it takes some getting used to that thick cut bacon is almost nowhere to be seen.

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