This just in from the The (Va.) Daily Press in Tidewater:
In the beginning, there was ham.
The very first English settlers in Virginia — the original Jamestown colonists — brought pigs with them when they crossed the Atlantic. The first wave in 1607 brought three, historians tell us.
In short order, that trio of oinkers increased to [...]

ELLISTON — Dave Long can remember when Montgomery County had more than a dozen dairy farms and supported four family-owned feed and flour mills.
Today he can count the number of local dairies on one white powdered hand, and Big Spring Mill, owned and operated by his family since 1935, is the only mill left standing.
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My granny made big, fluffy cathead biscuits nearly every day of my childhood. But until last week it had been literally years since I baked my own. That’s when I revived the wonderful tradition of breakfast for dinner.
For about a year in the early 1990s, I baked Hardee’s biscuits for a living, and I can [...]