Pig Love (Part Three)
Pork, Don Quixote and the Spanish Inquisition
In the town of Mirandela, just over fifty km from the Spanish border, there’s a local speciality you can find in just about any tavern called the Chorizo de Alheira. It looks exactly like any other piece of of charcuterie with one pivotal difference—it’s pork free. Both Spain and Portugal share a mixed Muslim…