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Sunday dinner with ham, potato salad, black eyed peas and cornbread. With sweet tea, or course.

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Food Lion--unfortunately the one closest to my house closed. But I love their MVP prices.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box

Sunday dinner with ham, potato salad, black eyed peas and cornbread. With sweet tea, or course.

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Cook the Book: 'The Food Life'

Food Lion--unfortunately the one closest to my house closed. But I love their MVP prices.

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Cook the Book: New South Grilling

Country fried steak, rice with gravy, black eyed-peas and sliced tomatoes. YUM.

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Richardson's BBQ, Powderly, KY. Sliced or chopped pork bbq in a big wax paper container. The meat and the sauce were SO awesome. For many years we got it every time we visited my grandparents. All are long gone now -- the grandparents, and the bbq.

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I have two favorite pork memories:
I was at Mayberry Days a few years ago (in my hometown in NC) with my father, who had a booth set up for his business. I was there very early and was able to follow the judges around while they judged the pig cook-off contest. They judged all different types of the meat: whole hog and bbq with different sauces (eastern and western NC bbq) and the judges all let me sample with the judges. It was amazing!
The other memory is from when I was 8 years old and a neighbor roasted a whole hog on a homemade rotisserie in their yard. It freaked me out at the time, but I ate the meat and it was delicious!

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The time I scorched the ribs on the grill because they were too greasy.

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Eating a chunk of lechon skin: pork that's been roasted over coals that gives you skin burnished in color, shatteringly crisp with a thin layer of fat. Dip in a sauce of cane vinegar, garlic and chili. Imagine the skin shattering between your teeth, fat melting on your tongue.

Oh.My.God.

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Walking back to work with a QP of jamon iberico from despana and proceeding to eat it all, straight up, slice by slice.

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It's a tie - between the fabulous Pork Belly they serve at Blackbird's in Chicago - and the whole suckling pig roast at my sister-in-law's farm. YUM!

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I remember knowing that my grandparents, who worked a ranch, got most of their meat and veggies from raising them themselves. Burgers, steaks, chicken...and bacon, right? I just knew bacon came from chickens until I saw my grandmother putting bacon in the shopping cart one day. I was flabbergasted, to say the least. Of course, I was six...

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Bun Cha Hanoi at Superior Pho, Cleveland, OH. Pork, 3 ways!
Sensational!

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Sunday mornings at the flea market with my BACON, butter and grape jelly sandwich on a soft kaiser roll

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Sitting around the table on Saturday morning with my brothers and sisters eating peanutbutter toast with crispy bacon crumbled on top.

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Favorite pork memory? The easy answer is the crispy, hickory smoked bacon I had for breakfast yesterday. But one of my favorites is a teriyaki marinated pork tenderloin that I grill several times every summer - a fabulous treat that the entire family enjoys!!!

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My fondest pork memory was moving to North Carolina and finding out that wherever I went - eye doctor, dentist, etc - they all wanted to take my blood pressure. After about a year of this, I finally asked somebody why they all do it. I was told that it's because people in NC eat so much pork that people in the health field have to be extra careful to watch out for people with high blood pressure.

I'm sure this sounds crazy, but I smile whenever I remember!

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eating honey baked ham for a holiday meal - it was so-o-o-o-o-oo good!

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I love to slice & boil Jalapeno's & stuff each half slcie with a mini sauage , cream cheese & wrap with a piece of bacon & cook until done.
I can eat these by the dozen!
Not really heart healty ~but I do use lowfat cream cheese.
When in a hurry I use precooked bacon & hold them togather with to pick & boil for 2 minutes.

This is my biggest vice ~but My #1 Pork Meal that I love.

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My fondest pork memory was polishing off an entire rack of ribs when I was four years old. I have never changed. :)

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I LOVE pork so this is just one of many fond memories. I was staying in Las Vegas and I got up early one morning to drive to Death Valley. I wanted to have as much time there as possible so I got up very early and the restaurant in my hotel wasn't open yet so I left without eating. After a few hours of driving through the desert I came to a little restaurant/convenience store/gas station/bar & casino and realized I was hungry. I ordered an omelette that had sausage, bacon and ham in it and was asked what kind of toast I'd like with it and she gave me the choice of white, wheat, English muffin or biscuits and sausage gravy. I'm from Chicago so I'd never had biscuits and sausage gravy before but it sounded like it would be a lot more filling than an english muffin so I ordered it. It was one of the bigger mistakes of my life because even though that was many years ago I still make my own biscuits and sausage gravy at home at least a couple of times a month and sometimes I even put some smoked deli bacon in it for extra flavor. Mmmmm . . . PORK!

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The whole pig with an apple stuffed in his mouth sitting on the dinner table for easter in our Italian household.

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It was the time when I was a child, and we went to Germany to visit our family. One morning, the butcher came for some pigs; and, at lunch, we had wurst and sausage and pigs' feet.

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