PIG PERFECT: Encounters with Remarkable Swine and the Best Ways to Cook Them
Peter Kaminsky, . . Hyperion, $23.95 (291pp) ISBN 978-1-4013-0036-4
In this sprawling love letter to hogdom, "hamthropologist" and food and fly fishing writer Kaminsky takes readers to France and Spain as well as to such American cities as Memphis, Louisville and Des Moines to visit a broad variety of pork-related venues. He waxes ecstatic about long-aged country ham and laments today's leaner, less flavorful meat. He seeks out a pig slaughter, considers why pork is taboo to Jews and Muslims, and excoriates the brutality and environmental damage wreaked by hog factories. Kaminsky (
Reviewed on: 03/14/2005
Genre: Nonfiction