The visitor is no sooner seated at the table when the host has already placed a plate of sliced chorizo on the table. The relationship that is established between the visitor and the host takes on a familiar, home-like character.
A glass of Rioja wine will be a must, encouraging conversation and dialogue.
There is no better lunch or snack than a simple and delicious chorizo sandwich. It's that easy: sliced between slices of bread. A tasty meal for children and adults. Generations and generations have snacked on a chorizo sandwich because their mothers and grandmothers knew that it provided the necessary nutrients for the proper nutrition of children and young people. Quality, naturalness and health among bread.
Slaughter bench: The pigs were brought, with great effort, to these wooden benches to be slaughtered, where the slaughterer would stick a long knife into their jugular vein in order to make them bleed to death.
Every Riojan household possessed the utensils needed to prepare the products of the slaughter. All kinds of knives, machetes, basins and containers, meat mincers and mixers, manual sausage fillers, cooking pots, spice containers...
If the small tool manufacturing industry was important, equally important was the manufacture of pots, vessels and gamellas that kept them as long as possible, preserving all their nutritional properties and their characteristic aroma and flavor.
The slaughter became a social act, which on the one hand was intended to reinforce the bonds of belonging of each family to the group or community of residence and on the other hand showed the group's ability to process a large amount of food, transform it and store it so that it could be available throughout the year.
