So, what's the difference? The preservation process is at the heart of the distinction between cured and uncured ham. Cured ham undergoes treatment with a blend of salts, nitrates, and sugars to ...

So for the most part, when you walk down the grocery store aisle, you're coming across cured ham. I'm not sure a lot of folks even considered whether or not ham could truly be uncured. But ...

Ham can also undergo an optional process of smoking. When ham is dry-cured, the meat is rubbed with a mixture of salt and seasoning, and then left to age. When ham is wet-cured, it is immersed in ...

Heating and glazing a cured ham seems effortless, but many recipes yield leathery meat in an overly sweet glaze. We wanted to guarantee moist meat in a nuanced glaze. Bone-in hams, labeled “with ...

Enrique Tomas, the largest purveyor of cured jamón ibérico (Iberian ham), will open a two-story restaurant, bar and store on Henderson Avenue this fall. The 37-year-old Barcelona-based ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Can you say "capicola?" On Staten Island, one might hear the word for the Italian, dry-cured ham called out as "Gobba-Goal." But Italian speakers typically forgo the "G ...

Then she got oiled and peppered and hung in the smokehouse. Such is the road to a real country cured ham, the kind you see sold in cloth bags at the store. I made Ham-ela as part of a Virginia ...

Museum curator Tracey Neikirk said her requests for a case for the item—what the museum calls the world's oldest edible cured ham—were met with disbelief.

The byproducts of dry-cured ham may be a source of anti-hypertensive bioactive peptides, which could help improve cardiovascular health. Routine doctor's appointments usually end the same way. The ...