[Sca-cooks] Pig cheese: the final oink

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Indeed. But I believe the people most interested in all this have  
experience of both cows and pigs and so they may be making some assumptions, but  
certainly not because they are ignorant city-folk. Also, I know lots of 
stories  of pigs eating babies; somewhat less of cows doing so. This does indeed 
inflect  my own idea of their relative orneriness.
 
Otherwise, those who simply cannot get their snouts out of this particular  
trough might like to know some of the other factoids I've been finding as I 
 browse about on the general subject of pig's milk:
 
- The Egyptians thought it caused leprosy
- A 14th century doctor included it in a cure for dropsy
- A man who traveled in Afghanistan claimed the locals gave him a cheese  
which turned out to be pig cheese; and, once he got over a certain 
repugnance,  he found it pretty good.
- The Jewish philosopher claimed that, being closest to human milk (and  
apparently he wasn't far off), it was the best (presumably he ascertained this 
 without actually tasting it).
- Dolly Parton claims she once drank some directly from a pig's  teat...
 
Jim  Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste  Le Grand d'Aussy:
Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France  

 
In a message dated 3/22/2013 1:38:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
phlip at 99main.com writes:

milk  cows don't automatically
give up milk, they're trained to do so, and  similarly a milk pig would
have to be trained as well.

I'm not  pointing this out just to be annoying, but rather because I
feel it's  important that city people not make assumptions based  on
ignorance,