Dunno if it's a business relationship, but Libbie Summers, of Whole Hog Cookbook fame, seems to be heeding the adage of going big or going home, as far as pork producers are concerned. You might recall that her cookbook featured photos taken at Caw Caw Creek Farm, but called for Smithfield branded pork in many of the recipes, leading to an exchange between Emile DeFelice of Caw Caw Creek, and Summers herself. I'd forgotten I was following her on FB, and then the image above pops up. Pork be inspired is a National Pork Board jawn, best known as the folks who brought you "The Other White Meat." If you sell a pig in the US, you're obliged to kick .40 of every $100 to the Pork Checkoff. But, as the Times pointed out ,"to call pork 'the other white meat''angers small producers, especially the growing number who raise pigs on pasture. Those farmers know that pork from such pigs isn't white at all -- it's closer to red -- and that the products consumers see in magazines misrepresent the meat they raise."
FWIW, Summers appears to be throwing her lot in with the white CAFO pork.
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