Namely chitterlings -- a traditionally Southern delicacy made from pig intestines -- and barbecue pork.

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So we join the rich in beautiful dining rooms, like The Peninsula's Mei Jiang (peninsula.com) where we eat exquisite dim sum - rolled noodles with black beans and chilli, snow pea pastries, roast pork puffs so buttery they're like pig shortcakes - and are treated like pashas.

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The results will cause any pork lover to swoon, but the prospect of procuring and boning a whole pig and then wrangling it over a fire pit in my small and densely wooded yard seemed beyond impossible in this lifetime.

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Few Americans know more about that hysteria and the cost it incurs than U.S. pig farmers, who can probably feel pork prices dropping everything someone uses the "s-word" despite the stubborn fact that one cannot contract this virus by eating pork.

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The ambition persists despite marriage to the long-suffering Susana, perhaps the only Galician vegetarian, despite the menace of cholesterol from all those fat-laden pork sausages and despite the threat (kindly pointed out by Susana) that eating pig brain will lead to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

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The discovery of pig DNA in beef products is of particular concern to Jews and Muslims, whose dietary laws forbid the consumption of pork products.

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