Poached Eggs with Chanterelle and Ham Cream Sauce

I grew up in a mushroom hunter’s kitchen. My parents turned the Reading, Pennsylvania, restaurant they inherited from my grandfather into a destination restaurant specializing in mushrooms. I kept the restaurant going until my wife and I moved to the Willamette Valley in Oregon and opened the Joel Palmer House Restaurant, a mushroom-forward restaurant now helmed by my son Christopher. I fell in love with Oregon truffles and started Oregon White Truffle Oil, which is run by my son Stephan an