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Keep Cooking the Crap Outta Those Chickens - They're Poison You Know!

Why should our food be dangerous?


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Zampone - Stuffed Pig's Trotter

The cleverness of the poor women who thought of stuffing a pig trotter is undeniable. If you go to a sagra in Italy you might find out about this fantastic hunk of porky goodness.


You Can't Raise Pigs Without sub-therapeutic use of antibiotics - Everybody Knows That!

Except that Denmark, the largest hog producer in Europe, stopped routinely feeding healthy livestock antibiotics. Over a decade ago. And things are better than ever.


Pigs, Fear and Civilization in Cairo - the Zabaleen


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Pizza, from Mystic to Real for Julia Roberts


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Stuffed Zucchini


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Francois Pope: Mastering the Art of French Cooking Before Julia Child


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