Ham hocks are essential ingredients in soul food and other forms of Southern country cooking. Soul Food is a 1997 film, produced by Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Tracey Edmonds, and Robert Teitel, and released by Fox 2000 Pictures. ... The U.S. Southern states or the South, also known colloquially as Dixie, constitute a distinctive region covering a large portion of the United States, with its own unique heritage, historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ...

A ham "hock" in the sense contemplated here is the end of a smoked ham where the foot was attached to the hog's leg. It is the portion of the leg that is neither part of the ham proper nor the foot or ankle, but rather the extreme shank end of the leg bone and the associated skin, fat, tendons, and muscle. This piece is generally comprised of too much skin and gristle to be particularly palatable on its own, so it is largely used to be cooked with greens and other vegetables in order to give them additional flavor (generally that of pork fat and smoke), although the meat from particularly meaty hocks may be removed and served. Two halves of a pig being delivered Pork is the meat taken from pigs. ...