July is only six months away, so area 4H students began work this weekend on their projects for the annual Jefferson City Jaycees Cole County Fair. This is actually the perfect time to start on ...

Ham — a meat variety that is so commonplace, it's easy to forget the intricacy. Always sourced from a pig's hind leg, everything from prosciutto to speck and holiday ham falls under the umbrella.

This time of year, turkey gets a lot of attention. But let’s be real, turkey is massively overrated. It's dry. It’s flavorless. And cooking it wrong can burn down your house. Enter: ham, the ...

I come from a ham town and everyone knows it. The mention of Smithfield conjures pork. But to most, it is factory farms, picket lines and Paula Deen, things associated with Virginia’s monolithic ...

A program called All Hams on Deck where people learn first-hand curing country hams. A program called All Hams on Deck where people learn first-hand the Kentucky tradition of curing country hams. You ...

In 1973, a retired dairy farmer in Tennessee leased out his smokehouse to Allan Benton, a young man interested in mastering the traditional Appalachian art of dry-curing ham. Word of Benton’s skills ...