{"id":351,"date":"2017-11-10T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/?p=351"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:47:14","slug":"ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/blog\/meat\/ham\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the menus items we\u2019ve ever enjoyed over the years, one is perhaps more memorable than any other. To be honest, it\u2019s also possibly the only one we can recall in its entirety. It was at St John\u2019s in Clerkenwell, London and the date was around when the nineties became the noughties. The menu item was\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ham\u00a0\u00a0 14\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The amazing dish aside, what really impressed us was the pure confidence and conviction the good folk at St. John had to do \u2018simple\u2019 incredibly well. Especially when it\u2019s easier to dress something up, perhaps throwing a couple of faddy ingredients in for good measure.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Multi-ingredient listings look like a lot of thought and effort has gone into the dish because nothing is implied, it\u2019s all there in front of you. It\u2019s curation on steroids. Ham 14 gets buy sildenafil online<\/a> your imagination racing, leaving space for you to imagine everything from the breed of pig, the method of cooking to how it would be served. It creates a romantic story that is stoked further when some context, no matter how minor, is provided. This makes you trust in the simplicity and fill in the gaps to assume that it will be a high-quality pig providing the ham, who hopefully lived a pleasant and natural life and that it has been prepared with expert care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But why are we telling you this? Well, as you can probably tell, Ham 14 inspired more than just our tastebuds. 17 or 18 years on, it kickstarted one of Blanchflower\u2019s favourite mottos: create don\u2019t curate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, and egg, bacon 6<\/span><\/p>\n

We recommend it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lesson in simplicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,13,7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-blanchflower.above.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}