The Hearty Ham

The Hearty HamPlayboy's food & drink editorWhen Cicero said, "Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art," he couldn't have been thinking of the smoked thigh of a pig.A fresh ham is the product of nature, and has much to recommend it. But a smoked ham is a work of art. Certainly if Cicero had lived long enough to taste a genuine Smithfield ham taken from a peanut-fed razorback hog, carefully buried in salt, rubbed with freshly ground pepper, smoked over slow burni...