The only brand of Spanish chorizo that you can buy in the stores in the US is Palacios. Que pena, no?

As I said, there are some other decent Spanish-style chorizos, but they are produced domestically in the US.

And ofcourse there are a ton of Mexican and other types of uncooked/uncured chorizos available in the US, but that's a whole different thing.

Sorry, Iberian, I completely missed your post yesterday night. I am sure that I read it, but it did not go into my brain :-S

We have the European Union for something: the Internal Market. This means that anything can be traded inside its borders, whatever it is. The difficult thing, like in the US, might be getting inside.

Of course, this is not true for everything, but applies very well for lots of goods and most services. So, you can take serrano ham, chorizo, even non-cooked pork meat, with you from Madrid to London. Restrictions might be set up, but only temporarily, if a disease breaks up in one of the countries (it has happened twice with pork meat from Spain, and some other times with other items, as beaf and lamb from the UK). So, in normal conditions, you make take whatever you want.

Even if it is not the aim of this thread, this also applies to alcoholic drinks. UK authorities are quite restrictive on this issue (no doubt, lobbied by alcoholic drink distributors), since if you take a big amount of bottles (let's say over fifty), they will ask you to fill out the documents as any other importing company, or paying a fine for not doing so (which is not a tariff - there is not such a thing inside the EU!). So, it might happen that if you take twenty serrano hams with you, UK customs officials may ask you about it ;-) But nothing happens with half a kilo, or even a whole ham.

Regarding asking the airlines, you should take their answer as indicative, because they are not in charge of custom controls, so they are never sure about it (I think they have to check security on behalf of US authorities in flights bound to the US, but there is nothing about customs controls).

Max,

Tienda.com has jamon serrano and chorizo (some of which is made in the US, other is imported from Spain). (Clicking from the link above, or from the link on http://www.multimadrid.com/hogar.htm gives jer a percentage of the sale but doesn't raise the price...jer uses the money to offset his web server costs.)

thanks Paul!

truth is that it has been a VERY loooong time since my tienda affilia paid off but i appreciate the click-throughs.

starteed out strong years ago and then tapered off so i removed a lot of their banner and links from the site to make room for paying sponsors

saludos,
jer...

There is a store located in Santa Fe, The Spanish Table, that sells jamon, Redondo Iglesias, and chorizo from Spain. You can check their website here.


They sell small packages and the whole leg, deboned


Irene