…but that’s OK. It was fittingly after all, a report from earlier this year that, on July 20, 2016, the Slow Food movement awarded their 100th Ark of Taste product certificate to the breed society of …….<drum roll please> …….
It joins those earlier rare Great British pig breeds already included on their register: the Berkshire, the Large Back, the Oxford Sandy & Black, the Middle White, the Welsh and the Tamworth. Fine company indeed & a welcome addition.
And you know what you have to do to help by now don’t you? Yup; that’s right — go out and ask for it from your butcher. Cook it, savour it, love it, save it.