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 ...

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.

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 ...