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For a comic book aficionado like me, smoked ham evokes pictures of a plump wild boar turning slowly over a fire in a peaceful Gaulish village, even as a banquet awaits Asterix and his friends. And according to the gastronomic Bible, Larousse, it was indeed the Gauls, "great devotees of pork and efficient pig breeders, who first became renowned for the salting, smoking and curing of the various cuts of pork".  But to sample a slice of succulent smoked ham all we need to do is walk into Farm Products, tucked away in a leafy lane adjacent to the Taj Mahal Hotel, Colaba. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]