Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat

Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat

by Barry Estabrook
Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat

Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat

by Barry Estabrook

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Overview

A Splendid Table Staff Book Pick of the Year

"Estabrook, a reporter of iron constitution and persistence, has dug deep into the truth about the American pork industry without losing his sense of humor and humanity." —Christopher Kimball, Wall Street Journal

In Pig Tales, New York Times best-selling author of Tomatoland Barry Estabrook turns his attention to the dark side of the American pork industry. Drawing on personal experiences raising pigs as well as sharp investigative instincts, Estabrook covers the range of the human-porcine experience. He shows how these intelligent creatures are all too often subjected to lives of suffering in confinement and squalor, sustained on a drug-laced diet just long enough to reach slaughter weight. But Estabrook also reveals how it is possible to raise pigs responsibly and respectfully, benefiting producers and consumers—as well as some of the top chefs in America.

Provocative, witty, and deeply informed, Pig Tales is bound to spark conversation at dinner tables across America.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393352931
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 06/21/2016
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author
A three-time James Beard Award winner, Barry Estabrook is a former contributing editor at Gourmet magazine and the author of Pig Tales and Tomatoland. He blogs at politicsoftheplate.com and lives in Vermont.

Table of Contents

Introduction 15

Pig I The Nature of the Beast

1 Hog Sense 25

2 Wild Things 45

3 Of Hogs and Humans 68

Pig II Life as a Protein Product

4 Big Pig 85

5 Hog Hell 104

6 Raising a Stink 117

7 Hog Fights 131

8 Hog Wash 146

9 Drug Abuse 160

10 A Bitter End 186

11 Life on the Line 201

12 The Crate Escape 217

Pig III When Pigs Fly

13 Three Little Pigs 235

14 The Pope of Pork 243

15 To Market 259

Acknowledgments 279

Notes 285

Bibliography 309

Index 313

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