Working with Country Ham

Working with Country Ham

Country ham is not something I grew up with. There was nothing quite like it in Massachusetts. It is a dry, salty ham similar to European hams like Italian prosciutto or Spanish serrano . It makes sense given that they’re all produced roughly at the same...
Corn Cake

Corn Cake

I didn’t grow up a Southerner. I grew up in Massachusetts. Up there we only had one kind of cornbread…the sweet kind made from a box mix, usually Jiffy. Now that I’m a chef in the Mid-Atlantic (I have trouble referring to Maryland as “the South”), I often get caught...