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Salt-cured Kentucky country ham fried hard and deglazed with black coffee into a sharp, thin gravy. A Bluegrass farm breakfast that Lexington's butchers and biscuit kitchens keep in circulation.
Kentucky farm smokehouses cured hams in salt through the winter long before refrigeration, and the fried-slice-plus-coffee-gravy breakfast followed wherever tobacco and horse farms fed their crews at dawn. Central Kentucky remains cure country: Critchfield Meats cuts country ham on Southland Drive, Crust folds it into charcuterie boards, and biscuits-and-ham breakfasts survive on menus across Lexington.
2 editor picks for Country ham with red-eye gravy in Lexington, ranked by editorial score. All Lexington signature dishes · Country ham with red-eye gravy across every city.
Critchfield Meats runs a family butcher counter on Southland Drive, cutting Kentucky beef, pork and country ham for Lexington home cooks since the 1960s.
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TipThe charcuterie with Kentucky country ham nods local before the Neapolitan-leaning pies arrive.
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