If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused. Thrusting themselves into the spirit of the farce, they ham it up like mad. In the Bible, a son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem. hammed hamming ham it up to perform with too much false emotion when acting. Cut of meat consisting of the thigh of a hog, usually preserved through a curing process that involves salting and smoking or drying. In addition to preserving the meat, curing gives it additional flavour. Sugar or honey and spices are sometimes added to further enhance flavour. Produced throughout the Old World except where forbidden by religious edict (principally by observant Muslims and Jews), ham became a favoured food on farms of North America. The distinctive qualities of hams of various regions of the world result from unique combinations of hog-raising and meat-processing techniques. Virginia hams, for example, are cut from razorback hogs fed on peanuts and peaches and smoked over apple-and hickory-wood fires. Ham is a source of high-grade animal protein, thiamine, and iron
The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking
According to Genesis, a son of Noah (Gen 5: 32; 6: 10; 7: 13; 9: 18, 22) and the father of Canaan (Gen 9: 22), Ham was considered the progenitor of various nations in Phoenicia, Africa, and West Arabia (1 Chron 8) "The land of Ham" is usually taken to be Egypt (Pss 78: 51; 105: 23; etc )
A hind leg of pork/hog cured in various ways The leg is cut from the carcase and brined seperately Ham may be cooked, raw or smoked The french term Jambon refers to ham and also to a leg of fresh pork see also Ham pictures see also cooking a Ham