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What FoodAnthro is Reading Now . . .
. Thursday, 21 November 2024, 10:39 (10:39 AM) CST, day 326 of 2024 .
 
BBC Food
The Gardian News/ The GardianAnimals Farmed/

World Food and Water Clock
OWL logo, Online Writing Lab, Purdue University.    
 
     
Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.
"Palermo,Sicily
Italy
A Fistful of Rice.
A Fistfull of Rice
Nepal
Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.
Claire Kathleen Roufs
U.S.A.

Eating rat.
"Eating Rat At The New Year"
Vietnam
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Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
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Australia

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Hogs / Pigs / Pork

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Leman Swine Conference / CEFANS Talk
  19 September 2017

 a little wild pig taken in Czech Republic.

  Nora Elizabeth Roufs Enjoys Little Pig

1 March is National Pig Day (U.S.A.)
7 March is Crown Roast of Pork Day
4 July is National BBQ Spareribs Day
October is National Pork Month
12 October is National Pulled Pork Day

see also
Animal Domestication
Meat Eating
Animal Welfare

Wikipedia

Pig
List of domestic pig breeds
Pig farming
Suckling pig
Pork
Ham
Bacon
Lard
Wild boar
Boars in heraldry
Iron Age pig
Pork cuts
Spare ribs (pork)
Short ribs (beef)
Category: Pork dishes
Category: Pork
Porcellino


pig
NOUN:  
  1. Any of several mammals of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa.
    The farmer kept a pen with two pigs that he fed from table scraps and field waste.
  • (specifically) A young swine, a piglet.
TRANSITIVE
VERB:
 
  1. (of swine) to give birth.

    The black sow pigged at seven this morning.
INTRANSITIVE
VERB:
 
  1. (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).

    They were pigging on the free food at the bar.
ETYMOLOGY:   From Middle English pigge ("pig, pigling"), from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbrēad ("mast, pig's food")), pet-form related to West Frisian bigge ("pigling"), Low German Pugge ("pet pig"), of uncertain origin.

In the News . . .

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Salatin, Joel. The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs. NY: Faith Works, 2016.

  • Searl, Duncan. Pigs. NY: Bearport, 2006.

  • Smart Meat and Dairy Guide (PDF) -- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

  • Steingarten, Jeffrey. It Must've Been Somethin I Ate. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

  • Swartz, Marvin. Tyson from Farm to Market. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.

  • Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.

  • Towne, Charles Wayland, and Edward Norris Wentworth. Pigs from Cave to Corn Belt. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950.

  • Twitty, Michael W. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. NY: HarperCollins, 2017.
  • The Cooking Gene, Michael W. Twitty

  • USDA Economic Research Service
  • Watson, Lyle. The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004.

  • Weiss, Brad. Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

  • White, E.B. Charlotte's Web. NY: Harper Collins, 1980.

  • Zaraska, Marta. Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat. NY: Basic Books, 2016.

 

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The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BP184.9.D5 P54 2006 DVD)
(China)
(Malaysia)
(70 min?)
[food tears Chinese culture apart in Malaysia]
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American Cuts of Pork

American cuts of pork.


British Cuts of Pork

British cuts of pork.

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Porcellino (Museo Bardini), ca., 1634

Porcellino (Museo Bardini), ca., 1634
Pietro Tacca (1577—1640)
Wikipedia

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  Van Gogh’s Starry Night Rendered In Bacon


 a little wild pig taken in Czech Republic.

  A Little Wild Pig

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