EditorialPork belly dries in the village of Gang Biansun, near the urban pig farm on the outskirts of Ezhou, China, on Jan. 10, 2023. When it comes to the Chinese diet, pork carries a special cultural and culinary significance. (Gilles Sabrie/The New York Times)
EditorialSea Island red peas, an indigenous variety, are cooked with fresh cuts of pork at a cookout where a hog was slaughtered, at Peculiar Pig Farms in Ridgeville, S.C., Feb. 12, 2022. (Clay Williams/The New York Times)
EditorialBacon and pork butcher's guild in Amsterdam, guild token by Paulus Habel, Brass plaque. Obverse: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions, cut off: inscription next to flower. Reverse: man with a triangular hat on head slaughtering a pig lying on the...
EditorialPork butcher's guild, guild token with no. 10, Brass token. Front: lying pig with inscription between the letters W and -in mirror writing- S above the year within a scroll wreath. Back: figure 10., anonymous, Netherlands, 1643, brass (alloy), engravin...
EditorialPork herdsman with herd of pigs, Forest landscape with herd of pigs and a pig herdsman. In the left foreground a pooing pig. In the background on a hill, among the trees, a fence with a man by a fence. Bottom right: 1, pig, Johannes Gronsveld, Amsterda...