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Real Pigs (eBook, PDF)

Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork

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Produktbeschreibung

In addition to being one of the United States' largest pork producers, North Carolina is home to a developing niche market of pasture-raised pork. In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for "e;authentic"e; local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, and chefs through the process of breeding, raising, butchering, selling, and preparing pigs raised on pasture for consumption. Drawing on his experience working on Piedmont pig farms and at farmers' markets, Weiss explores the history, values, social relations, and practices that drive the pasture-raised pork market. He shows how pigs in the Piedmont become imbued with notions of authenticity, illuminating the ways the region's residents understand local notions of place and culture. Full of anecdotes and interviews with the market's primary figures, Real Pigs reminds us that what we eat and why have implications that resonate throughout the wider social, cultural, and historical world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374237
• Artikelnr.: 54783457

Autorenporträt

Brad Weiss

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
1. Pigs on the Ground  21
Profile: Eliza MacLean
Profile: John O'Sullivan
2. Pigs in a Local Place  59
Profile: Sarah Blacklin
Profile: Jennifer Curtis
3. Heritage, Hybrids, Breeds, and Brands  107
Profile: Will Cramer
Profile: Ross Flynn
4. Pigs in Parts  155
Profile: Kevin Callaghan
5. A Taste for Fat  187
Profile: Vimala Rajendran
Profile: Sam Suchoff
6. Farm to Fork, Snout to Tail  219
Conclusion. Authentic Connections  243
Notes  255
References  265
Index  277