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By
Juan Pablo GonzalezAbstract
On Christmas Eve, my family always have pan de jamón, which is a soft bun loaded with ham, bacon, olives, capers, and all sorts of goodies. Pan de jamón is everywhere in Venezuela during the holiday season.
Pan de jamón was invented by the bakers in Venezuela. Usually, during the holiday season, they would cook hams and sell it to the public. What they didn't sell they would bake into their bread, and that's how pan de jamón was born, a traditional staple of Venezuelan holidays and Venezuelan cooking.