Wooden board topped with various cured meats - Grandriver/Getty Images If you've ever found yourself standing aimlessly in front of the deli section at the grocery store, you're not alone. Sometimes ...

Learn how to make Italian Pitina at home using a simple, reliable method—no curing chamber required. In this video, based on ...

Charcuterie comes from the French phrase chair cuit, which means cooked meat. But today, the term encompasses all kinds of preserved and cured proteins from Italy, France, Spain, and beyond. Think ...

Imagine your favorite cured meat like beef jerky, pepperoni or bacon without any added sodium nitrite from any source currently necessary for color and shelf life. Wes Osburn, Ph.D., is doing exactly ...

Cold-smoking meats can be risky — but there's a salty solution that makes it safer. Before you fire up the smoker, here's the ...

Cole County 4-H members, volunteers and staff have been gathering in the Lincoln University commercial kitchen to prepare pork bellies for the annual bacon show and auction. Eligible members ages 8-18 ...

Osburn, associate professor in meat science in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Animal Science, has set out to find an innovative method to generate the nitric ...