A homemade ham represents a formidable culinary challenge. You might start with a pig’s hind leg, which tips the scale at 15 to 20 pounds. You would cure it in a brine that contains at least one ...

As with any roast, cooking a ham can be a process. Depending on how you do it, you run the risk of the meat drying out, or ...

Medically reviewed by Jamie Johnson, RDN Ham is a popular protein around the holidays and a go-to choice for sandwiches and breakfast meats year-round. And while it is certainly tasty—especially when ...

While ham is packed with protein and flavor, experts warn that its high sodium and nitrate content may pose serious health ...

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.

It takes a long time for a ham to fully cure. So area 4H students are already working on their projects for the summer's annual Jefferson City Jaycees Cole County Fair. Students have ordered hams from ...

Two studies have been published looking at Toxoplasma in Spanish dry-cured meat products and in meat of adult sheep. Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Transmission has been ...