Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork
ISBN-13:
9780822361381
ISBN-10:
0822361388
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Brad Weiss
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
312 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780822361381
ISBN-10:
0822361388
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Brad Weiss
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
312 pages
Summary
Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork (ISBN-13: 9780822361381 and ISBN-10: 0822361388), written by authors
Brad Weiss, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2016.
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Description
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.
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