A blog about pigs in all their glory; also about food (in-)security and canteens and “everything for everyone” and proper anarcho-syndicalist politics for the communities that we all belong to.
Length: < 1 min Regular readers will know that I’ve been thinking for a long time about my own business involving pork. In some form or another. But it’s a popular place to be. Lots of people have the same plans. So, maybe not… Read More »A van full of pork? You’re all talk…
Length: < 1 min Not quite local, I know. Bad me, especially after all my previous rants about only buying from butchers you know and trust in your immediate area, rather than from the rapacious supermarkets and how much carbon emission crap produced using… Read More »Shouldering the burden
Length: 6 mins “It was market-morning. The ground was covered, nearly ankle-deep, with filth and mire, and a thick steam, perpetually rising from the reeking bodies of the cattle, and mingling with the fog, which seemed to rest upon the chimney-tops, hung heavily… Read More »Butchers; Smithfield, Spitalfields & Borough Markets Part 1 of 3. Or maybe more. Who knows?
Length: < 1 min Today, I accompanied the wonderfully green-fingered Val Littlewood to a local garden centre where she bought some green plant things called, I’m reliably informed, “Sweet Williams”. Great for bees (like this Hairy Footed Flower one highlighted by Val in a… Read More »Green is the colour
Length: < 1 min Wildlife often flourishes in the interstitial contaminated areas left behind by both natural and man-made disaster; the population unchecked by normal human predation. Now in the dense forests surrounding Fukushima, the population of wild boars is exploding, having grown from 3,000… Read More »OK, so you’ve killed that radioactive boar? Now, WTF do you do with it?
Length: < 1 min Courtesy of some great work by the hugely talented Val Littlewood, I am now the proud possessor of this hand-painted Delft tile. Takes pride of place on my desk now.
Length: 5 mins And when asked, I have to answer “no”. If, like me, you’re lacking in more than a few of the skills necessary in, say, the building of your own house, re-assembling a dismantled car engine-block or trouble-shooting exactly why that rocket… Read More »The dreaded words: “are you any good at DIY”?
Length: < 1 min I’ve no real idea (and I guess the correct answer is likely to be “not enough”) but back in 2013, of the approx. 7,000 butchers in the retail meat industry then in the UK, the lady highlighted in this Guardian piece,… Read More »How many women butchers are there?
Length: < 1 min It’s offal. So, anyone who’s squeamish about eating the insides of animals can just bugger off and leave more of these bundles of deliciousness to the rest of us. And for that, I for one, will be profoundly grateful. With a… Read More »Devilled kidneys; a breakfast of champions
Length: 3 mins If any man (apart, obviously, from the, “should be, if I believed in religious rubbish”, sainted Fergus Henderson, who can do no wrong in my eyes) can be said to have re-vitalised a rather staid, sometimes moribund meat scene in England, then… Read More »“Hog”; the whole hog and nothing but the hog.
Length: 2 mins Three books. Three books designed particularly to appeal to the nerds out there. And yes, that means they also flashed up the bright neon “buy me now” sign in my frontal-cortex. So, of course, I did. They’re all designed for… Read More »Cooking for geeks; in the food lab
Length: < 1 min Another part of the various attempts to reduce waste was the Stop The Rot strand. This is an update on an agreement reached in the last 24 hours
Length: < 1 min This is great news. I’ve mentioned The Gleaning Network from Feedback.org before in this piece on swill and food waste earlier on the blog and they’ve now teamed up with FoodCycle — with assistance from the Lottery Fund — to help train… Read More »“Putting a stop to global food waste”: Gleaning & saving & working & employing…
Length: < 1 min Remember Liebig? I mentioned this “polymath for nerds” man quite recently. His “bouillon”, the subject of this poster, that I stumbled across recently at the framers mutated over the years to become (this variant is the XO, super tasty, super strong… Read More »Love it? Loath it?
Length: 2 mins “Picture this, a sky full of thunder Picture this, my telephone number One and one is what I’m telling you Get a pocket computer Try to do what you used to do, yeeeeeeeah” via Blondie, all the way back in… Read More »Picture this!
Length: < 1 min Favourite? Well, maybe… certainly that’s true if the breed is measured by volume or number. Which as you will know by now, having got this far with me, isn’t how this particular blog looks to judge the worth of a pig.… Read More »“The World’s Favourite Breed”? Introducing the Large White…
Length: < 1 min The “old friend” is the team at Pitt Cue who, after closing towards the end of last year at their tiny old crib in Soho (where you were rubbing body parts with others if the head-count went over 20), have… Read More »Mangalitza goodness & an old friend returns…
Length: < 1 min There’s a huge, long, involved, possibly even scholarly, post waiting to be written with this as the (click-bait) title. This one isn’t that post. But it is a subject that I’ll come back to later, worry not dear friends. No, this… Read More »Are pigs religious?
