James Silverton > wrote:

> Jen wrote on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:10:28 +0000:
>
> , cut a couple of lean
> > gammon steaks into cubes (or smoked bacon or lardons or
> > pancetta cubes or whatever. Something vaguely bacony, anyway)
>
> Gammon is some sort of smoked pork I guess, I think I've heard the word
> before but don't remember what it is.

Gammon is, in this context, ham cured like bacon. It does not have to
be smoked and, in fact, usually isn't (or else it tends to be called
other names). It is an English, as opposed to American, thing. It can
also mean the lower piece of flitch of bacon, hind leg including.

Victor