I recall a story that Willaim Byrd II of Westover wrote down in his family bible -- where most folks write down births and deaths and such -- the process for smoking a ham. He must have liked his ham! All this discussion of ham is great -- I turned my New England born wife into an (almost) southerner with one ham biscuit long ago. David Kiracofe David Kiracofe History Tidewater Community College Chesapeake Campus 1428 Cedar Road Chesapeake, Virginia 23322 757-822-5136 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html