As we work our way closer to the shattering denoument of the week, more good news for people who love bad news for swine. 101 Cookbooks delivers with a cookbook adventure:
So, my goal in eating a whole entire pig is two-fold: to not waste any
part of the animal (as much as my stomach and wallet will allow for)
and to learn how to cook a pig from head to tail. And leave nothing but
the oink behind.
Hungarian pig kidney stew I am skeptical of, though it is more sound than the followup of buying a pig head at a Mexican market and throwing it away. Yes, Virginia, heads have eyes. Culiblog has a different take on the whole everything but the squeal thing:
"Everything but the squeal" is a quote attributed to the meat-packing
industry and it was first signalled in Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, the Jungle
which described the vile and unhygenic working conditions under which
meat was reaching American consumers 100 years ago. If we can believe PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), and Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation (and I do), not a whole heq of a lot has changed. I do not recommend visiting this site
if you plan on eating any part of any animal, wearing fur, leather and
even wool, or even drinking the fruits of an animal's existence, any
time soon. The PETA organisation is all about the squeal, and I have to
say, the practices that they document are abhorrent.
Actually, The Jungle is about the vile and unhygenic working conditions created by capitalism, wherein meatpacking is simply a particularly, um, visceral example, but it is a common mistake.
Also, lest we forget,
Basically, it’s hard to feel like you’re really in Kyoto when you’re eating miso-glazed Cheez-its off Robert Downey Jr’s lap.
Word.
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