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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Christmas Ham

Smithfield ham is one of those products that is so familiar to people in the United States that many not only take it for granted but also unfairly confuse it with more mundane, mass-produced ham. In honor of Christmas, that most ham-centric of holidays, I thought I'd drop some recently acquired ham-related knowledge on you.On a recent visit to the small town of Smithfield, Virginia (population 8,108 to be exact), I found out that this handcrafted slab of pork goodness has every bit the illustrious history of its European rivals, San Daniele from Italy and the legendary jamon Iberico from Spain, and has a taste that compares to them both. It is particularly fine when served in ...