[Sca-cooks] bacon, lardo etc

[Stefan li Rous]

Jim  Chevallier said:
<<< Medieval pigs were much leaner and still closer to boars. In general there  
is a big difference between Roman animals, early medieval animals, late 
medieval  animals and so on. >>>

15 years ago, we had a big discussion on this between myself and Lord Ras. I’m not sure we found a denotative answer. The pigs ran in the forest are likely to be less fat, despite feeding on the acorns and such. But those of the nobles, who had the grain resources and could feed their pigs on that, were likely to have more fat.

In the last few years, they've actually been breeding, or selling, pigs that are leaner, because our dietary tastes or concerns have changed.

p-pigs-msg (38K) 1/15/07 Medieval pigs. Differences from modern pigs.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/ANIMALS/p-pigs-msg.html

Stefan
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