This cookbook is extremely interesting to read as a basic ham reference book and is packed with more than 100 international recipes all using ham in one form or the other.  - Italian Food Forever The book leaves no part of the world unexplored, featuring ham recipes from the Philippines to Spain, the Caribbean to the American South, and even their own home corner of rural Connecticut (where they buy and help raise a hog of their own). By "ham," the authors mean the hindquarter, the joint that becomes Italian prosciutto crudo and Spanish jamon iberico. Some great photography and invaluable information about buying, preparing, and serving ham.