Is There a Definitive Work on the Production of Country Ham?

There is no definitive work on the production of country ham, writes mat. Yale did a book, a on endangered breeds, but it's not solel pigs. The whole first thing at the museum of food and drink was basically drawing the exact parallel between european hams and american country hams. If you're looking at american country ham's thinking about country ham is a broader sense of that particular style of ham making its way into America.