Snout to tail

Friend of Screwtop Randy directed me to this Chicagoist piece, Breaking Down a Pig at South Water Station, which offers a slideshow of butchering a pig to make sure every delectable part gets used up. Obviously, if you’ve got a squeamish streak you probably don’t wanna check it out. But man is it fascinating. I’d try it at home but alas don’t have freezer space for 200 pounds of yum. Or, you know, a spine-grade hacksaw.

Bacon!

“What followed was like a combination of a (particularly tasty) episode of CSI and a scene from Little House on the Prairie.”