'Top Chef' holiday ham is sweet and spicy: Here's the recipe, plus common cooking mistakes
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Chef Buddha Lo shares ham's significance during the holidays and five common mistakes when it comes to cooking one. Plus, he shares his honey, soy and chili ham recipe.
"Ham has a history of being a preserved food, a tradition especially strong in Chinese culture," Lo told Fox News Digital. "Because the holidays fall in winter, when it's too cold to access fresh meat, pigs were typically slaughtered in the fall, then cured to preserve the meat, making it a great meal for the winter season." "The real goal is to warm the center of the ham to a specific temperature." Peter Burke is a lifestyle editor with Fox News Digital.
Born in Australia to a father from Hong Kong and a Malaysian mother, Lo grew up around a kitchen. He first learned to cook at his family's Chinese restaurant, where he started working at the age of 12.