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 It’s going to be an exciting pork year here at Salute The Pig Central. I’ll be adding a lot more more short-form items to this blog in preparation for another (still top-secret) project that we’re working on but will also… Read More »Happy New Year & a porktious 2016
Length: < 1 min Who knows where this will end up eh? The necessary paperwork for my Environmental Health inspection and approval is being worked on. And lots of reading to make sure I can tick all the boxes needed to make sure that… Read More »And so it starts…
Length: < 1 min Just a quick post (with a tip of the hat to the delicious Val Littlewood for coming across this one). It’s a map of the United States in the shape of a pig, surrounded by more pigs representing the different… Read More »The US mapped — as a pig?
Length: 8 mins Let Them Eat Pork Rinds by Christopher Hitchens ©Vanity Fair December 2005 And even in Atlantis of the legend, The night the seas rushed in: The drowning men still bellowed for their slaves. These lines are taken from Bertold Brecht’s… Read More »Let them eat pork rinds…
Length: < 1 min Just a taster, so to speak. A much longer piece with words coming this weekend. Just to whet your appetite. Enough food puns now, you think? Credit to Serious Eats for the ‘photos.
Length: < 1 min Not a strictly pork or pig related post but it’s such a fascinating piece that I decided to include it anyway. And fermentation is so much part of many of the processes used in preserving or curing pork (or in… Read More »Hacking the human microbiome…
Length: 3 mins Of course they would; even when swearing, Italian sounds as though it comes from the mouth of angels, rather than the hacking throat clearing from those rough Anglo-Saxons in the North and this word roughly translates as “pillow“. Which some… Read More »I say “Face Bacon”; the Italians say Guanciale
Length: < 1 min Anthony the Great. Loved pigs. And heading off, to spend long periods of time in the desert. And the patron saint of skin diseases. Thus St. Anthony’s Fire. Nothing to do with BBQ’ing the pork though. This pig looks a… Read More »Not a stylite; but on fire nevertheless
