What's with the pig resistance?
Sally Fallon is wary of pig meat and has no recipes using it. Paul Pitchford of course doesn't like it but he doesn't like meat anyway. Jewish and Muslim traditional food rules prohibit it.
Now, amongst my latest stash of food books from the library (such fun, so much better than netball or watching tv), I find that Peter D'Adamo of blood type diet fame doesn't seem to like pig meat either.
I love bacon, I love ham and ham soup. I love roast pork and salami. The awesome gelatine-intense stock you can get from pig trotters seems to team with good health messages to me.
So I'm curious as to the origins and reasons for the pig taboo. I'd love to hear of all theories, hypotheses and examples.
[Off to read the rest of the food books...]
Now, amongst my latest stash of food books from the library (such fun, so much better than netball or watching tv), I find that Peter D'Adamo of blood type diet fame doesn't seem to like pig meat either.
I love bacon, I love ham and ham soup. I love roast pork and salami. The awesome gelatine-intense stock you can get from pig trotters seems to team with good health messages to me.
So I'm curious as to the origins and reasons for the pig taboo. I'd love to hear of all theories, hypotheses and examples.
[Off to read the rest of the food books...]
Comments
I still feel ill when making ham sandwiches for the kids.
I like domestic pork, any food you raise in your own back yard actually. Not to fond of wild pig, can't get use to the taste and smell. Would like to like it - free wild food is very appealing.
I love bacon and ham but can't stand pork most of the time - not sure why. It is odd that so many people don't eat it, although many people don't eat beef for religious reasons either
As far as I can ascertain, cooking up trotters and roasting hocks for stock isn't going to cause a problem. I only 'ascertain' that from the absence of any information decrying the non flesh elements of the pig. WAPF style information claims that the fat is good, just not the meat.