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Article: The food on which civilisations flourished
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- The Press
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- November 12, 1998
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PORK PLEASE
by Pip Duncan. CJ Publishing, $10 from NZ Pork Industry Board, PO
Box 4048, Wellington. Mavis Airey
Pip Duncan reckons pork is the world's favourite meat. She could
be biased, having been a consultant to the Pork Industry Board for
the last nine years, but she has a point. ``It could be said that
European civilisation -- and Chinese civilisation -- has been
founded
on the pig,'' writes Jane Grigson in her classic book, Charcuterie
and French Pork Cookery.
``Easily domesticated, omnivorous household and village scavenger,
clearer of scrub and undergrowth, devourer of forest acorns, yet
content with a sty, and delightful when cooked or cured, from his
snout to his tail.''
The pig, ...