We had Christmas ham with friends one year - it was delicious, rum, cloves, brown sugar. I had just been reading the Eat Right 4 Your Type books and my type (no types) are supposed to do well with pork as its known to lower resistance. Oddly enough, I very much enjoyed that dinner, but got sick right after. That was kind of an experiment. I also read The Maker's Diet which is written by a Christian Jew (Jordan Rubin) where he talks about the reasons for biblical health laws. One part in there really hit me. He talks about how the plague didn't affect the jewish people. Those who were affected were suspicious at that point of them, but didn't realize the difference was that the Jews kept to the clean animals. (Notice in movies how they portray people then sometimes even living with pigs in winter). Anyway - not a pork eater either. An Aunt and Uncle use to have a pig farm - fresh ham is so good...but I cannot bring myself to eat it now.