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Nonsense, Ferrari.  This is a grade-A prime cut example of thread drift.  So it belongs here :).

One other nice pork product is wild boar - hopefully a diet based more on nuts and roots than grain.  Done a lot of nice things with boar shoulder, and wild boar bacon is definitely a gateway meat for vegetarians of my acquaintance.

VG

The only boar I have had was at a Tuscan vineyard, in a ragu.  Tasty but I can't say I have really tasted it.  I will taste anything, and usually I like (bananas, for some reason, being the rare exception.  Really don't care for them.)  my cooking went to another level when I went cast iron.  I was waiting for the promised inheritance from my mother, whose set comes down from her grandmother, but when Mom hit 90 without missing a beat I decided I couldn't wait.  I use it now for most everything, including eggs.  Mine weigh three times hers, but I use it on the stove, in the oven, on the grill.  My best roast chicken is in the ci skillet in a hot oven. I have asked for her ci corn stick pan (circa 1885) until I have given up.  When we were married we asked for and received fancy Dan triple core fancy name brand all the range cookware, when what we needed was a set of cast iron from Ace hardware for less then the cost of one of those fancy pots.  Ah, youth.

[Rally]

Nonsense, Ferrari.  This is a grade-A prime cut example of thread drift.  So it belongs here :).

One other nice pork product is wild boar - hopefully a diet based more on nuts and roots than grain.  Done a lot of nice things with boar shoulder, and wild boar bacon is definitely a gateway meat for vegetarians of my acquaintance.

VG

The only boar I have had was at a Tuscan vineyard, in a ragu.  Tasty but I can't say I have really tasted it.  I will taste anything, and usually I like (bananas, for some reason, being the rare exception.  Really don't care for them.)  my cooking went to another level when I went cast iron.  I was waiting for the promised inheritance from my mother, whose set comes down from her grandmother, but when Mom hit 90 without missing a beat I decided I couldn't wait.  I use it now for most everything, including eggs.  Mine weigh three times hers, but I use it on the stove, in the oven, on the grill.  My best roast chicken is in the ci skillet in a hot oven. I have asked for her ci corn stick pan (circa 1885) until I have given up.  When we were married we asked for and received fancy Dan triple core fancy name brand all the range cookware, when what we needed was a set of cast iron from Ace hardware for less then the cost of one of those fancy pots.  Ah, youth.