Directions: Place the pig tails in a large stockpot and fill with enough cold water to fully cover them. Cover the pot and ...

The pig’s exceptionalism is undeniable: There are plenty of good jokes about rabbis and ham sandwiches, but hardly any about rabbis and oysters.When formerly Orthodox Jews sit down to write ...

Pig tail. In 1929, the Advertiser wrote that Montgomery’s population of 60,000 was the biggest pig tail consuming area in the country — about 75,000 pig tails a month.

In 1992, a merchant was selling homemade freeze-dried, pig-tail jewelry.Watch the full story in the video above. This story is from the KCCI archives.

Mark Essig is the author of “Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig.” In a little discussed pending Supreme Court case, National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, the ...

The pig’s exceptionalism is undeniable: There are plenty of good jokes about rabbis and ham sandwiches, but hardly any about rabbis and oysters.When formerly Orthodox Jews sit down to write ...