Nothing says the holidays are in full effect more than a big slab of country ham. Just a tad sweet, plenty juicy and with a dash of salty twang, country ham is to Virginia what crawfish is to ...

Virginia Country Ham: The Three-Month Cure Our 50 Plates tour continues with the South's salted pork from the Bent Brick. Expand. July 11, 2014 at 1:42 pm PDT.

Sunday, Hamday, Tuesday. That’s how this week started, when The Baby Girl and I zipped on out to Pungo to pick up our gen-u-ine Virginia country hams. (They are there on the table.) ...

Talk to chefs around the country, and they'll tell you they've seen the photos of the massive fire that ripped through Edwards Virginia Smokehouse on Tuesday in Surry, Va. They'll also tell you ...

Editor's Note: The following correction was made to this column. The incorrect information has been removed. S. Wallace Edwards and Sons in Surry, which makes Virginia country hams and other ...

Although the "Genuine Smithfield Ham" label has been discontinued as of 2024, Virginia ham remains a culinary institution.

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Standing in a puddle of slush in a decades-old lean-to, near a pile of pork, I'm miserably cold and wondering why this tradition has endured. Out here in Pungo, in the Virginia Beach farm belt ...