Lesser beasts : a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig /
Essig, Mark, 1969-
Lesser beasts : a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig / Mark Essig. - viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes index.
Keep it simple -- Out of the wild -- "The pig is impure" -- "Of their flesh shall ye not eat" -- "Monstrosities of luxury" -- The forest pig -- "Swine eat things clean and unclean" -- "The husbandman's best scavenger" -- "All the mountains swarmed with them" -- ¿"A great unkindness for our swine" -- "The benevolent tyranny of the pig" -- "Twenty bushels of corn on four legs" -- The republic of porkdom -- "The swinish multitude" -- A growing prejudice against pork -- "The other white meat" -- Vices -- "Back to the start" -- Epilogue: Virtuous carnivores.
9780465052745 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014049256
Swine--History.
Pork--History.
SF395 / .E64 2015
636.4
Lesser beasts : a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig / Mark Essig. - viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes index.
Keep it simple -- Out of the wild -- "The pig is impure" -- "Of their flesh shall ye not eat" -- "Monstrosities of luxury" -- The forest pig -- "Swine eat things clean and unclean" -- "The husbandman's best scavenger" -- "All the mountains swarmed with them" -- ¿"A great unkindness for our swine" -- "The benevolent tyranny of the pig" -- "Twenty bushels of corn on four legs" -- The republic of porkdom -- "The swinish multitude" -- A growing prejudice against pork -- "The other white meat" -- Vices -- "Back to the start" -- Epilogue: Virtuous carnivores.
9780465052745 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014049256
Swine--History.
Pork--History.
SF395 / .E64 2015
636.4