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 We visited Newton’s house at Woolsthorpe Manor yesterday. Hugely atmospheric, exciting and an very emotional place. And to hear a talk on the year 1666; his Annus Mirabilis and the most important, intense period of scientific discovery until Einstein, 250… Read More »Newton’s hams & birds
Length: < 1 min Just a quick note about a new history page that I’ve put up today discussing the French breed, le Noire de Bigorre, which you should immediately hustle off and read right now. And you’ll see how I came across this… Read More »Frenchie?
Length: < 1 min And as well as allowing the use of antibiotics to carry on saving our lives, this will make a huge difference to the current over-use of antibiotics in animal husbandry. It could have come sooner but it’s a hugely important development and one… Read More »The UN & 193 countries finally agree to fight antibiotic resistance …
Length: 2 mins Saturday was a non-work day. But Sunday? Ah, Sunday was different. Hard work, new concepts, interesting people, challenging ideas and great fun. And pig related. As you’ll see at the end. We spent all day at the London Centre for… Read More »Happenings in Hackney. Or I hope I didn’t get on your Wick?
Length: 5 mins It’s a fact — and one that brooks no credible challenges — that the very best pigs in the world come from England. No “ifs”, no “buts”, no “maybes”. Just a done deal. That said, I recognise that there are… Read More »“Ooooh Ossabaw, what is it good for?”
Length: 2 mins WARNING: This post contains no pork. This will not damage your health though. So don’t stop reading. As well as containing a none too shabby hostel-type hotel (“Pension Homeland“), the grounds of the (still partly security gated & armed sailors… Read More »Brewing up a naval storm
Length: 3 mins A Saturday morning at Brandt & Levie making some sausages from their great tasting Baambrugse pork. Using two of my favourite things in the world (Val Littlewood and Apple tech aside). What’s not to like? Well, this painting they have on… Read More »Gin & sausages. The marriage made in Heaven.
Length: < 1 min OK, I have to fess up. At some point around April, I managed to break the email engine on the blog, so all of you lucky people who’d sensibly signed up for my gems possibly won’t actually have seen anything… Read More »Miss me? Go, on, tell me? You did, didn’t you?
Length: 7 mins A hugely exciting trip to Amsterdam last month; far too short of course as they always are, but starting here for the next few weeks, for your delectation and delight, are some selected, important highlights. If, like me, your Dutch… Read More »Pigs in S̶P̶A̶C̶E̶ Amsterdam
Length: < 1 min This is a great postcard from the Portuguese Letterpress team at Serrote cards. It’s likely to influence heavily any such cards that may be designed by the very wonderful Val Littlewood…
Length: 4 mins My post today is pretty much a complete cop out, in that it’s a cut and paste job. But no less important for all that. Taken from an excellent piece… Read More »Stop using the supermarkets. “It’s the only way to be sure…”
Length: < 1 min No sniggering at the back of the class please… Make @TheFoodLab’s Cuban roast pork, and you’ll have a start on an awesome Cubano sandwich.
Length: 2 mins You did? Well thank you! Thank you for fucking up the country. The country that you claim to love and want to “take back”? (Take it back from whom by the way? Fucking leprechauns or Martians?) Thank you for bringing… Read More »So, did you vote to #Leave?
Length: < 1 min From the pages of the aforementioned deliciously wicked “Pornburger: Hot Buns and Juicy Beefcakes” via the beautifully diseased mind of chef Mathew Ramsey: come these two temptations: I’ll be undertaking this on the charcoal when the sun comes out again… And… Read More »Pork porn; one of which is a burger
Length: 4 mins The last part of the Suffolk run took us to Southwold and to the Adnams beer brewery & spirits distillery. They have these amazing copper stills, which seem to be perched, hovering in mid-air inside the brewery, used for their… Read More »Gin and things
Length: 2 mins Well done; you’ve made it through the marathon of the previous posts — so you may be pleased to hear that this is the last one of the “Chris & Val Go Wild On Holiday” set… One of the other… Read More »Tobias, knives, Tomb Houses & pigs. Part 3 of 3.
Length: 4 mins So, to the farm itself. We’d arrived mid-afternoon — on one of the last days of the festival — which meant that it wasn’t the maniacally busy place that the first few days apparently seem to be. Which also allowed… Read More »Tobias, knives, Tomb Houses & pigs. Part 2 of 2 (or 3 or 4).
Length: < 1 min If only because of their great, almost steam-punk influenced (and quite menacing) logo which I like. A lot… … the Unruly Pig looks like one to visit on the next trip into Suffolk. I want to work my way through… Read More »An unruly pig? Who knew they could be?
Length: 4 mins Health warning: This is likely to be quite a long post. So I may well stretch it out over a few separate ones, so as not to totally bore the pants off y’all. And whilst there’s a lot about pork… Read More »Tobias, knives, Tomb Houses & pigs. Part 1 of 2 (or 3).
