Lesser beasts : a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig

Essig, Mark 1969- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780465040681 (e-book)
ISBN: 0465052746 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780465052745 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
viii, 310 pages; 22 cm
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Keep it simple -- Out of the wild -- "The pig is impure" -- "Of their flesh shall ye not eat" -- "Monstrosities of luxury" -- The forest pig -- "Swine eat things clean and unclean" -- "The husbandman's best scavenger" -- "All the mountains swarmed with them" -- "A great unkindness for our swine" -- "The benevolent tyranny of the pig" -- "Twenty bushels of corn on four legs" -- The republic of porkdom -- "The swinish multitude" -- A growing prejudice against pork -- "The other white meat" -- Vices -- "Back to the start" -- Epilogue: Virtuous carnivores.