西班牙頂級火腿大師切個火腿掙4000美元!

If you've gone to your local grocery store deli lately, and felt that $6.99 for a pound of ham was outrageous, you'd flip in hearing that some people pay this Spanish man $4,000 for his ham slicing talents.

如果最近你去了本地的雜貨店熟食區，覺得火腿每磅賣到6.99美元的價格實在是無法容忍，那麼當你聽說有人居然花4000美元請這個西班牙人切一次火腿，你非得瘋了不可。

A leg of Iberico ham in Spain is already special in its own right, going for about $500, but when Florencio Sanchidrian gets his hands on it, the value skyrockets.

在西班牙，一隻伊比利亞火腿本身就已經很昂貴了，市場價大概在500美元左右，要是再經過佛羅倫西奧·桑奇德里安的妙手一揮，價格絕對一路飆升。

"I've now got a slice that will taste nothing like a normal cut and will in fact remind me that God exists,” Sanchidrian said in a New York Times article.

桑奇德里安在《紐約時報》上的一篇文章中說道：“現在我刀上的這片火腿，跟用普通方法切成的那種口味完全不同。而且說實話，它讓我想起了上帝的存在。”

While on the surface, it sounds like narcissistic nonsense, he can't be too far off if he's sliced for the likes of Barrack Obama, Robert De Niro, David Beckham, and even catered to stars at the Oscars.

不過從表面來看，這番話就像是一個自戀狂胡亂說出來的。他要真是給奧巴馬、羅伯特·德尼羅和貝克漢姆這些人切過火腿，甚至是在奧斯卡頒獎典禮爲各路明星服務過，那還不太離譜。

In an Interview with Munchies, Sanchidrian gave a bit of insight to what his slicing secrets entail, basically saying that he understands the meat like no other.

在接受Munchies的訪談時，桑奇德里安就自己切火腿的祕訣談了一點兒領悟，大體上就是他對火腿肉有着獨到的見解。

"I continued to learn more and improve my skills until I decided to devote myself, body, and soul to this beautiful profession," he told Munchies.

“我不斷地學習，努力提高自己的刀技，直到有一天，我決定要全心全意地爲這個美好的職業獻身，”他對Munchies這樣說道。

"A good cortador de jamones should try to manipulate the joint as little as possible and when serving the meat, help people appreciate it with all of their senses."

“一個優秀的切火腿大師應該儘可能地不改變火腿的口感和味道，要等把肉端上桌以後，讓食者用全身的感官來品味。”

He's now been slicing for over 30 years, saying it felt natural from the first time he grabbed a knife and applied it to the piece of meat.

至今爲止，他已經切了30多年的火腿了，他表示，從自己第一次握刀，並用它切下了一片肉，以後的一切好像都自然而然就發生了。

Celebrities and ham enthusiasts clamor toward this man for a piece of his meat, and if I had those kinds of funds, so would I.

名人和火腿發燒友們都爭相想要品嚐這個人切成的火腿片，如果我要是有這麼多錢，肯定也要去享受一把。