
Yunnan Ham from a Grandmother Room
To find out more about what we ate in Yunnan, including my encounter with a 40 year old mother of all hams, read the article here: A myth Growing up, I was regaled by tales of the mythical mellow richness of the Xuanwei hams from northeastern Yunnan. They were small boned, thin skinned, thick fleshed and tasted of high mountain air our China-born cook reminisced. A plain winter-melon soup could be miraculously transformed by the addition of a piece of the bone. A few slices