Country Cured Ham

1. www.rayscountryham.com

2. About Us Ray and Geneva Goad opened their first restaurant, about ten years after Ray was discharged from the Navy at the end of WWII. From day one home Cured Country Ham was featured on the menu. Ray became the innovator of the fast food breakfast. More significantly, he featured the homemade from scratch southern biscuits that his mother had started making at one of his first restaurants, Ray’s Starlight Restaurant, in Mount Airy, N.C., the home of Andy Griffith and Mayberry USA. Country ham harks back to the way food was preserved on the family farms of Appalachia before electricity and refrigeration. The family tradition of butchering hogs in the late fall allowed for them to be preserved during the cold winter months by rubbing them with salt, and sugar, and other spices to begin a curing process. They are patiently made in three traditional seasonal steps: curing, salt equalization, and aging, but also with a dedication to the preservation of a taste from another place in time, a taste that can be found in every slice of Ray’s Country Ham. “The only similarity between Southern Country Ham and the stuff in the deli case is that they both come from a pig. To Southerners and pork devotees, Country Ham is legendary: an exquisite dry-cured artisanal meat rivaling prosciutto in its rosy-hued perfection.” www.rayscountryham.com

3. RAY'S STORE $98.90 $25.25 $34.50 $29.50 $45.50 www.rayscountryham.com

4. Ray's Country Ham Brand Launched MOUNT AIRY, NC, July 4, 2017. Ray Jr. and Susan, the children of Geneva and Ray Goad, announced the organization of a family company to establish a Ray’s Country Ham Brand. The product will be cured in the style featured for almost 50 years at the Ray’s Starlight Restaurant in Mt. Airy, NC, and, at Ray’s Kingburger and Sweet Sue Restaurants, for more than twenty years across the five Mid-Atlantic States in which Ray’s operated. www.rayscountryham.com

5. Boone NC Leads in Preservation of Country Ham Tradition Dry curing is an ancient form of meat preservation, and Boone County, North Carolina has a long tradition of country cured ham. www.rayscountryham.com

6. Address Ray’s Country Ham Company LLC, 707 West Pine Street, Suite 600 Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA (336) 462-8791

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