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Everything But the Squeal: Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain
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Author
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John Barlow.
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Publisher
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FSG
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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8.5
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5.75
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1
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ISBN
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9780374150105
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Pages/Publication Date
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306/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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00949
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Description
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Self-confessed glutton John Barlow—whose novella collection, Eating Mammals, won a Paris Review Discovery Prize—found himself in a tricky situation: living in one of the most meat-loving places on earth, married to a vegetarian. Galicia, the misty-green northwest corner of Spain, is home to a population that reveres and consumes every part of the pig. This gets Barlow thinking about the nature of our relationship with food—what's delicious, what's nasty, and what sort of obligation we have to the animals we eat. Over the course of one glorious, bilious year, Barlow vows to eat every part of the pig but the squeal. "A person clever enough to make his way in this world by traveling, pigging out and then writing of such difficult duty might arouse a bit of envy among armchair travelers, but [John] Barlow is so unabashedly in love with almost all things porcine that rambling the countryside with him is a mouthwatering adventure.... Whether cruising tapas bars, enjoying small-town festivals, sampling rural roadhouse specialties or farmers' home-grown provisions, Barlow manages to eat pretty much the whole hog—even brains and heart, if not genitals—with an admirably old-fashioned passion for one of life's prime joys."—LATimes "Books like John Barlow's delightful Everything but the Squeal are often more important to a chef than actual cookbooks. It is impossible to cook even the most personal food without understanding the origins of a region's traditions. Barlow writes with considerable wit, and he perfectly captures how connected Galicians are to their landscape and culture.... And you have to love a guy who just wants to raise a son willing to share a ham sandwich."—Alex Raij
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