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"It's one of the most iconic gastronomic products from Spain," he says, pointing out how the pigs used to make the ham are reared in the wild and fed on acorns.

"It was truly under his leadership that what was once a family inn experienced a new boom to become this gourmet village which is a true gastronomic destination today," he said.

Judges described the restaurant, housed in a 16th Century aristocratic property since 2017, as a "delightful gastronomic getaway" where "every dish is now simply brilliant, with consistent levels of precision, balance and purity of flavour".

Here, contestants must decipher recipes that read more like riddles than instructions, relying on intuition and culinary ingenuity to bridge centuries of gastronomic evolution.

He's interested in learning more about N. intermedia's gastronomic potential, which he dubs "far less mainstream."