Of note: Smithfield, the ham company, was Virginia owned and operated until about 2013 when it was sold to a Chinese company for just over $4 billion. The bottom line: The Isle of Wight's old ham ...

Smithfield hams can only come from the town of Smithfield. Like Donnie Baker would say, “It’s state law!” Virginia hams are country hams, but you can also get “city ham” there ...

Eventually, the Virginia legislature set solid regulations for what could be sold as Smithfield ham, stipulating that the ...

That is, I would guess, particularly true if you`re a ham producer from Smithfield, Va., ”The Ham Capital of the World,” risking your reputation, indeed perhaps your livelihood, in competition ...

The town also is home to the world’s oldest cured ham from 1902 at the Isle of Wight museum. As important as the pork itself is Smithfield Foods, which employs about 3,800 people in Virginia.

SMITHFIELD, Va. -- Smithfield Foods celebrated its newest food venture - a restaurant that showcases the company's hams and other specialty food products - over ham biscuits, roasted peanuts and ...

SMITHFIELD, Va. — Painted pig statues grace the picturesque brick sidewalks of this small Virginia river town of 8,000, and its slogan, “Hams, History and Hospitality,” probably tells ...

S. Wallace Edwards and Sons in Surry, which makes Virginia country hams and other products, is not a producer of Smithfield hams. The information was incorrect in Hilde Lee's food column on page ...

Virginia’s most well-known state food is salty, cured country ham, also known as Smithfield ham because it is processed in the town of Smithfield. It’s a staple in Virginia cuisine.

WH Group, the Chinese parent company of Virginia-based pork producer Smithfield Foods, is planning to put Smithfield’s businesses in the U.S. and Mexico on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq ...