Article: The food on which civilisations flourished

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, ...

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