Real Pigs : Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork.

ISBN:

9780822374237

Title:

Author:

Weiss, Brad.

Personal Author:

Weiss, Brad.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Contents:

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Pigs on the Ground -- Chapter 2: Pigs in a Local Place -- Chapter 3: Heritage, Hybrids, Breeds, and Brands -- Chapter 4: Pigs in Parts -- Chapter 5: A Taste for Fat -- Chapter 6: Farm to Fork, Snout to Tail -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Pork industry and trade--North Carolina.

Cooking (Pork)--North Carolina.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2016

Publication Information:

Durham :

Duke University Press,

2016.

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Summary

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 "authentic" 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.

Author Notes

Brad Weiss is Professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary and the author of The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice , also published by Duke University Press, and Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania .