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Pork belly cut, showing layers of muscle and fat A pig being slow-roasted on a rotisserie. Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the pig (Sus domesticus).It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide, [1] with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BCE.
[135] [142] [143] In art, pigs have been represented in a wide range of media and styles from the earliest times in many cultures. [144] Pig names are used in idioms and animal epithets, often derogatory, since pigs have long been linked with dirtiness and greed, [145] [146] while places such as Swindon are named for their association with ...
A suckling pig prepared at St. John Restaurant, London Suckling pig being grilled at La Paloma fair in Madrid, among ribs and other pork produce. A suckling pig is a piglet fed on its mother's milk (i.e., a piglet which is still a "suckling"). In culinary contexts, a suckling pig is slaughtered between the ages of two
Brisket is a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest of beef or veal. The beef brisket is one of the nine beef primal cuts , though the definition of the cut differs internationally. The brisket muscles include the superficial and deep pectorals.
Ground or chopped pork offal is usually made into a hearty sausage known as "disznósajt" (lit. "pig cheese") somewhat resembling haggis. Puddings and sausages made with blood ( véres hurka ) and liver ( májas hurka ) are also quite common, especially as part of the "disznótoros", a dish of different sausages produced from pork.
Pigs are extensively farmed, and therefore the terminology is well developed: Pig, hog, or swine, the species as a whole, or any member of it. The singular of "swine" is the same as the plural. Shoat (or shote), piglet, or (where the species is called "hog") pig, unweaned young pig, or any immature pig [23] Sucker, a pig between birth and weaning
They have meat between the bones and on top of the bones and are shorter, curved, and sometimes meatier than spare ribs. The rack is shorter at one end due to the natural tapering of a pig's rib cage. The shortest bones are typically only about 8 centimetres (3 inches) and the longest is usually about 15 cm (6 in), depending on the size of the hog.
Pigs have been brought into literature for varying reasons, ranging from the pleasures of eating, as in Charles Lamb's A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, to William Golding's Lord of the Flies (with the fat character "Piggy"), where the rotting boar's head on a stick represents Beelzebub, "lord of the flies" being the direct translation of the ...