In Jiuchi town, Pengzhou, central China, there is a one-mile long street that features thousands of pounds of dried cured meat including hog’s heads.

Nice, short piece on Ebner Brothers Meat Packing a long-shuttered historical packing house in Wichita Falls.

Jinhua ham from China is impossible to get in USA. It’s illegal to import it or possess it. Which means we absolutely must get some and soon. Until then we’ll have to savor this article about the town’s 1000 year tradition of curing ham.

When you eat as much ham as we do you have to have a few biscuit recipes in your arsenal. Like this one from Allan Benton’s wife Sharon. You know the old-school hog man is well-fed with a wife like this in the kitchen.

There is artifice and deception in the Spanish ham market. Are these prized hams being frozen to preserve the status quo in price?

We sift through dozens of articles on cured meat to create this regular compendium. It helps us keep our finger on the pulse of meat journalism, one of our favorite topics.