RECIPE: Ham On A Biscuit With Cranberry Balsamic Reduction

Glazed ham on a biscuit (photo © Dietz & Watson).   Many hams will be baked this holiday season, generating many pounds of leftover ham. Much of that ends up on a simple ham sandwich. Here’s an alternative: Make your sandwich on a biscuit. It’s that much more special. We enjoy this recipe with breakfast…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Try A Speck Of Speck Alto Aldige

We’ll admit that we never heard of Italian foods like speck and lardo until about 12 years ago. We were introduced at Mario Batali’s restaurant Otto, in Greenwich Village (that’s otto, pronounced owe-toe, the number eight in Italian, the resto’s street address). Lunching with our fellow editor—two worldly eaters—we asked each other, “What is speck?”…
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HOLIDAY GIFT: A Ham Gift Basket

A gift basket with enough ham for a party! Photo courtesy TommyMoloneys.com.   Looking for a meaty gift for an important someone? A Hickory Valley Farms ham gift basket from Tommy Moloney’s might be just what they’d like to dig a fork into. We received one as a gift. The generously sized boneless ham, between…
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