When you visit a region, its cuisine says as much about its culture as paintings in an art museum. Travelers rush to Napa Valley for wine, Wisconsin for cheese, Maine for lobster... but there’s just ...

There are a few foods that are synonymous with the holidays. For Thanksgiving, there’s turkey. But as we leave Thanksgiving and near other holidays, we welcome the infamous holiday ham. For many, ...

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 ...

When the first English colonists landed at Jamestown in 1607, they had indispensable companions. Three pigs came ashore, too, the first of thousands who provided a crucial year-round meat supply and ...