(WKYT) - On Thanksgiving Day, many Kentucky families will gather around the dining table, and for some, the menu will include country-cured ham. This is the story of one Kentucky family that’s made ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. sliced ham on white plate - Bloxsome Photography/Getty Images In the world of holiday feasts and charcuterie boards, ham stands as ...

Mold on food is something we almost always want to avoid, but the word almost does a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Think about blue cheese, for instance, or soy sauce, which is fermented with ...

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 ...

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 ...

“You want to see some hams?” asked Douglas Freeman of Cadiz, Kentucky, as he ambled out of the barn. “We had it so hot and dry, a lot of ’em just shrunk up to nothing.” The 80-year-old Freeman, ...

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Given the title of ‘World’s Best Bacon’ by Forbes Magazine and the Southern Foodway Alliance 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Benton’s Country Hams and Bacon has been ...

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 ...

Why settle for a few flimsy slices of ham when you can enjoy a big ham steak? What’s so amazing about the salty, cured, and ...