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Lesser Beasts

Hardcover • 2014 • English

Lesser Beasts

By Mark Essig

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About the book

Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend,yet their flesh is banned in many cultures, and the animals themselves are maligned as filthy, lazy brutes.As historian Mark Essig reveals in Lesser Beasts , swine have such a bad reputation for precisely the same reasons they are so...Show more

Quick and easy cookery
National and regional cuisine
Cookery / food by ingredient

Book details

ISBN

9780465052745

Publisher

INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Lesser Beasts

Format

Hardcover

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