Tasso ham is a specialty of south Louisiana cuisine.Tasso (TAH-so) is a smoked seasoning meat used to flavor dishes like Gumbo, Jambalaya, and Red Beans & Rice. Tasso use to be made from the trim after an Acadian hog boucherie. Thin strips were heavily seasoned and then smoked for hours. These days however, most of the Tasso that is available is a little more fancy, more of a ham than the style of the old days, mine is somewhere in between.