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Hog Jowls
Pork jowl is a cut of pork from a pig's cheek. Different food traditions have used it as a fresh cut or as a cured pork product (with smoke and/or curing salt). As a Curing (food preservation), cured and smoked meat in America, it is called jowl bacon or, especially in the Southern United States, hog jowl, joe bacon, or joe meat. In the US, hog jowl is a staple of soul food. Outside the United States, there is a longer culinary tradition: the cured, non-smoked Italian variant is called guanciale. Culinary Jowl bacon can be fried and eaten as a main course, similar to streaky bacon. Often, it is used as a seasoning for beans, black-eyed peas or cooked with Leaf vegetable, leafy green vegetables such as collard greens or turnip greens in a traditional Southeastern meal. Jowl meat may also be chopped and used as a Garnish (food), garnish, similar to bacon bits, or served in sandwich form. Pork jowl can be used as a binding ingredient in pork liver sausages, such as liverwurst ...
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Jowl Bacon
Pork jowl is a cut of pork from a pig's cheek. Different food traditions have used it as a fresh cut or as a cured pork product (with smoke and/or curing salt). As a cured and smoked meat in America, it is called jowl bacon or, especially in the Southern United States, hog jowl, joe bacon, or joe meat. In the US, hog jowl is a staple of soul food. Outside the United States, there is a longer culinary tradition: the cured, non-smoked Italian variant is called guanciale. Culinary Jowl bacon can be fried and eaten as a main course, similar to streaky bacon. Often, it is used as a seasoning for beans, black-eyed peas or cooked with leafy green vegetables such as collard greens or turnip greens in a traditional Southeastern meal. Jowl meat may also be chopped and used as a garnish, similar to bacon bits, or served in sandwich form. Pork jowl can be used as a binding ingredient in pork liver sausages, such as liverwurst and braunschweiger. Traditions in the US A Souther ...
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The Hog Book
''The Hog Book'' is a 1978 book written by William Hedgepeth with illustration by John Findley and photography by Al Clayton. It was published in 1978 by Doubleday and republished in 1998 and 2008 by University of Georgia Press. The book covers the historical relationship between humanity and pigs through a variety of lenses, such as mythology, poetry and art. Reception In 1978, Phoebe-Lou Adams, in her review for ''The Atlantic ''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 185 ...,'' wrote: "only a confirmed pig-hater could resist this odd, pretty (yes, pretty) book." Peter Shahrokh, writing for ''Agricultural History'', claims: "Hedgepeth's basic message is that we limit ourselves terribly when we believe in the formula "pig equals pork"; the hog can be much more as Hedgepeth ha ...
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Soul Food
Soul food is the ethnic cuisine of African Americans. Originating in the Southern United States, American South from the cuisines of Slavery in the United States, enslaved Africans transported from Africa through the Atlantic slave trade, soul food is closely associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States. The expression "soul food" originated in the mid-1960s when "soul" was a common word used to describe African-American culture. Soul food uses cooking techniques and ingredients from West African cuisine, West African, Cuisine of the Central African Republic, Central African, European cuisine, Western European, and Indigenous cuisine of the Americas. The cuisine was initially denigrated as low quality and belittled because of its origin. It was seen as low-class food, and African Americans in the Northern United States, North looked down on their Black Southerners, Black Southern compatriots who preferred soul food (see the Great Migration (African American), Grea ...
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Cuisine Of The Southern United States
The cuisine of the Southern United States encompasses diverse food traditions of several subregions, including Indigenous cuisine of the Americas, cuisine of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands, Southeastern Native American tribes, Tidewater (region), Tidewater, Appalachian cuisine, Appalachian, Ozarks, Lowcountry cuisine, Lowcountry, Cajun cuisine, Cajun, Louisiana Creole cuisine, Creole, Soul food, African American cuisine and Floribbean, Spanish cuisine, Spanish, French cuisine, French, British cuisine, British, Ulster-Scots and German cuisine, German cuisine. In recent history, elements of Southern cuisine have spread to other parts of the United States, influencing other types of Cuisine of the United States, American cuisine. Many elements of Southern cooking—tomatoes, Squash (plant), squash, maize, corn (and its derivatives, such as hominy and grits), and Pit barbecue, deep-pit barbecuing—are borrowings from Indigenous peoples of the region (e.g., Cherokee ...
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Cuts Of Pork
File:British Pork Cuts.svg, 400px, British cuts of pork poly 187 219 187 194 173 196 Trotters poly 372 226 373 207 361 204 359 216 Trotters poly 171 141 166 104 287 117 294 152 Belly poly 167 102 178 27 315 23 274 102 Loin poly 361 201 371 181 394 177 373 201 Hock poly 174 191 163 182 174 173 178 184 Hock poly 387 172 372 156 371 149 387 137 407 85 368 61 370 43 328 27 315 38 302 137 343 172 Leg / Ham desc none The cuts of pork are the different parts of the pig which are consumed as food by humans. The terminology and extent of each cut varies from country to country. There are between four and six primal cuts, which are the large parts in which the pig is first cut: the shoulder (blade and picnic), loin, belly (spare ribs and side) and leg.Cattleman's Beef Board & National Cattlemen's Beef AssociationUniform Retail Meat Identity Standards. Retrieved 11 July 2007. These are often sold wholesale, as are other parts of the pig with less meat, such as the head, feet and t ...
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List Of Smoked Foods
This is a list of smoked foods. Smoking (cooking), Smoking is the process of seasoning, flavoring, cooking, or food preservation, preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood. Foods have been smoked by humans throughout history. Meats and Fish (food), fish are the most common smoked foods, though cheeses, vegetables, and ingredients used to make beverages such as whisky, smoked beer, and ''lapsang souchong'' tea are also smoked. Smoked beverages are also included in this list. Smoked foods Beverages * Lapsang souchong – a kind of tea. * Mattha – an Indian buttermilk or yogurt drink that is sometimes smoked. * Smoked beer – beer with a distinctive smoke flavor imparted by using malted barley dried over an open flame''Beer'', by Michael Jackson, published 1998, pp.150-151 ** Grätzer. * Suanmeitang – a Chinese smoked plum drink. * Scotch Whisky – some scotch is made from grains that have been smoked over a peat fire. Fi ...
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List Of Bacon Dishes
The following is a list of bacon dishes. The word ''bacon'' is derived from the Old French word ''bacon'', and cognate with the Old High German ''bacho'', meaning "buttock", "ham", or "side of bacon". Bacon is made from the sides, belly, or back of the Domestic pig, pig and contains varying amounts of fat depending on the cut. It is cured and smoked over wood cut from apple trees, mesquite trees, or hickory trees. Bacon is used as an ingredient or condiment in a number of dishes. Bacon dishes See also * Bacon mania * List of bacon substitutes * List of ham dishes * List of pork dishes * List of sausage dishes * List of smoked foods References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Bacon Dishes * Bacon Bacon is a type of Curing (food preservation), salt-cured pork made from various cuts of meat, cuts, typically the pork belly, belly or less fatty parts of the back. It is eaten as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), used as a central in ...
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of America, Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by U.S. state, states that had Secession in the United States, seceded from the Union. The Origins of the American Civil War, central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether Slavery in the United States, slavery should be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prohibited from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War, Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion, won the 1860 presidential election. Seven Southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding f ...
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Fatback
Fatback is a layer of subcutaneous fat taken from under the skin of the back of a domestic pig, with or without the skin (referred to as pork rind). In cuisine Fatback is a preferred fat for various forms of charcuterie, particularly sausages and forcemeat such as quenelles. In popular culture The 1954 rhythm and blues Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predomina ... song "Fat Back and Corn Liquor" was written by Louisiana songwriter Rudy Toombs and sung by Louis Jordan. It was released by Aladdin Records as the A side of a ten-inch 78rpm record. See also * * * * '''' References External links * {{Navboxes, list1= {{Fats and oils {{Pigs {{Bacon Cuts of pork Charcuterie Soul food African-American cuisine Romani cuisine ...
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Braunschweiger (sausage)
Braunschweiger (Help:IPA/English, /ˈbɹɑʊ̯nˌʃwɑɪgɚ/, named after Braunschweig, Germany) is a type of sausage. The type of sausage the term refers to varies by region. In the German language, ''Braunschweiger'' is the demonym for people from Braunschweig, Brunswick (German name ''Braunschweig''), but under German food law refers to a variety of mettwurst. In Austria, Braunschweiger is known as a type of parboiled sausage (''Brühwurst''), while American Braunschweiger is often confused with liverwurst. Germany ''Braunschweiger Mettwurst'' is a Smoking (cooking), smoked, soft and spreadable sausage usually made from raw minced pork and spiced with garlic, salt and pepper. Produced by Brunswick butchers as a regional speciality since the early 19th century, it became widespread with the advent of food preservation by canning. Several different recipes exist, some also including beef and fat. Austria In Austria, Braunschweiger is a Brühwurst variant which is similar to Jagd ...
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Liverwurst
Liverwurst, leberwurst, or liver sausage is a kind of sausage made from liver (food), liver. It is eaten throughout Europe, as well as North and South America, notably in Argentina and Chile. Some liverwurst varieties are spreadable. Liverwurst usually contains pigs' or calves' liver. Other ingredients are meat (notably veal), fat, and spices including ground black pepper, marjoram, allspice, thyme, ground mustard seed, and nutmeg. Many regions in Germany have distinct recipes for liverwurst. Adding ingredients like pieces of onion or bacon to the recipe make each variety of liverwurst very important to cultural identity. For example, the ''Thüringer Leberwurst'' (Thuringia, Thuringian liverwurst) has a Protected Geographical Status throughout the EU. Recently, more exotic additions such as Vaccinium vitis-idaea, cowberries and Edible mushroom, mushrooms have gained popularity. Etymology The word ''liverwurst'' is a partial calque of German () 'liver sausage', and 'liver sausa ...
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Sandwich
A sandwich is a Dish (food), dish typically consisting variously of meat, cheese, sauces, and vegetables used as a filling between slices of bread, or placed atop a slice of bread; or, more generally, any dish in which bread serves as a ''container'' or ''wrapper'' for another food type, and allows it to be a finger food. The sandwich began as a portable, convenient food in the Western world, though over time it has become prevalent worldwide. There has been social media debate over the precise definition of ''sandwich'', specifically whether a hot dog or open sandwich can be categorized as such. Other items, like hamburgers and burritos, were also considered. In the United States, the United States Department of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are the responsible agencies for protecting the definition of ''sandwich''. The USDA uses the definition, "at least 35% cooked meat and no more than 50% bread" for closed sandwic ...
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