Coming Soon: World’s Most Expensive Ham

Now, hard-core foodies are drooling over the prospect of something truly superlative from Spain, at least in price: a salt-cured ham costing about $2,100 per leg, or a cruel $160 per pound. It’s a price believed to make it the most expensive ham in the world. … The 2006 Alba Quercus Reserve (as this pricey pork will be known) won’t be available until late 2008 and you must buy the whole ham or nothing at all.

I need to figure out how to get a job with the AP on the “pork beat.”

World’s costliest ham triggers pork envy [News.Yahoo/AP]