(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.

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

Jennifer P. Brown published this article in the Hoptown Chronicle right before Thanksgiving. In our opinion, no single holiday can contain the savory delight of a country ham, so we’re serving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WKRN) — Rice’s Country Hams has been a Mt. Juliet institution for more than 90 years. The icon of Lebanon Road ...

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 ...