Cheese and Specialty Foods
Bosque De La Vega Speciality Cheese
Bosque De La Vega offers high quality specialty cheeses from around the globe from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA. Quite simply, cheese is a passion and an area of expertise. It's this expertise which helps ensure that you receive your specialty cheeses at the peak of their freshness.
Bosque De La Vega Olive Oils and Olives
Bosque De La Vega offers a lineup and array of premium quality specialty food items for almost any enthusiast including:
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A wide array of premium brand olives from the Mediterranean.
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Various other vinegars and imported olive oils.
The Iberian pig, whose origins can probably be traced back to the Neolithic, when animal domestication started, is currently found in herds clustered in the central and southern part of Portugal and Spain. Dried Cured Spanish Ham from purebred black-footed Ibérico pigs that feed on wild acorns.This traditional breed exhibits a good appetite and propensity to obesity, including a great capacity to accumulate intramuscular and epidermal fat. The high intramuscular fat is what produces the typical marbling; this, together with traditional feeding based on acorns, is what makes its ham taste so special. The production of meat products from Iberian pigs is quite distinct from other meat products obtained from selected pigs raised under intensive conditions on industrial farms, and it is a good example of high quality and highly prized meat product. Iberian pigs are interesting from a human biomedical perspective because they present high feed intake and propension to obesity, compatible with high values of serum leptin.