In Northern New England, corn cob smoking was passed on to settlers by the area’s native Abenaki people as a natural way to preserve meat. Each fall, farmers harvested rows of corn and piled them into tall, wire-meshed corn cribs where the sun and breeze would dry them. Then they built slow-burning fires in smokehouses fueled by the dried cobs, where they hung freshly cured pork from pigs they raised themselves. Today in our smokehouse, we pay tribute to the early farmer’s hard work and tradition lent a more naturally strong smokiness than hardwood for a tradition flavor that’s well loved throughout New Hampshire and Vermont.
