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 ...

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.

Alas, he did not get better with age. Ham, the aptly named ham, is now the world's oldest cured ham. In the summer of 2014, the Isle of Wight County Museum in Smithfield, Virginia celebrated Ham ...

This is an all-American food story about prosciutto, the dry-cured ham of Italy. Only in America could hogs raised by free-range farmers in the Midwest be turned into prosciutto by an artisan food ...