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Safeway says it intends to stop buying pork from suppliers that confine pregnant sows in narrow metal crates. The nation's second-largest grocery chain joins McDonald, Burger King and Wendy's in phasing out pork that comes from pigs raised in so-called ...  

Burgers should never be boring!  The sweet bite of apple and carrot throughout these burgers are a delicious treat, especially with the spicy guava sauce!AIMEE FORTNEY'S APPLE-CARROT TURKEY (PORK) BURGERS Let your ground turkey and pork come to room ...  

The Sugar Grove Firefighters Association Auxiliary will host a drive-thru pork chop dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 17, at the Sugar Grove Fire Station. 5-B’s will cater. Cost is $11 for two pork chops; $9 for one pork chop and $4 for a kid’s hot ...  

That's pork, folks, and it's part of Southern Living Magazine's quest for the best barbecue in that region. The Southern Living editorial team worked with writer and barbecue expert Hanna Raskin to pick top joints. *A Bar-B-Que, Memphis. The star "is the ...  

Alright, guys, listen up. Lets be honest with each other, okay? When you're out "on the town," enjoying a few libations, you're eventually going to want some munchies. However, we also know that eating late at night usually involves grease, cheese, and ...  

ROSALES, Pangasinan—As much as 87 million kilograms of pork have been smuggled into the country last year alone and the illegal meat entry continues, according to the head of a local hog industry group. Rosendo So, head of the Swine Development Council ...  

BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) -- China's pork prices continued to fall 1 percent last week despite the government's move to purchase frozen pork from the market in order to boost national reserves, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Tuesday. Weak pork prices ...  

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- In legal circles, it was not a high-profile case. But for a plucky little potbellied pig, and the family who loves him, the stakes couldn't have been bigger. And Wilbur the pig won. His owners' homeowners association had ordered Wilbur ...  

Spring, TX (KHOU/CNN) - Pig or pet? That was the question before a Texas judge in a battle between a family and its neighborhood HOA. There were tears and hugs and a celebration with fruit and a belly rub. The pig wins. Wilbur, a 70 pound Vietnamese pot ...  

I spent an hour Wednesday morning talking pigs and Leo Tolstoy on a traffic island outside the Princes' Gates. Anita Krajnc and her group call this “Pig Island.” They come here most weeks to watch and photograph the pigs en route to their death at ...  

Chef Christopher Gross can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear -- or a pig trotter for that matter. And he does it often, featuring pied de cochon (the pretty French word for pig feet) on his tasting menu as well as offering it as a nightly special on his ...  

I spent an hour Wednesday morning talking pigs and Leo Tolstoy on a traffic island outside the Princes’ Gates. Anita Krajnc and her group call this “Pig Island.” They come here most weeks to watch and photograph the pigs en route to their death at ...  

According to the customs statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute, in March this year Turkey's pig iron imports amounted to 122,516 tonnes increasing 80.6% compared to 67,843 tonnes recorded in the previous month and more than double ...  

The New Forest was designated a National Park a few years ago, and not before time. “New” is a misnomer, as its darker corners contain stands of spectacular ancient woodland. Perhaps more importantly for a dining destination with aspirations, they also ...  

The ingredients label for a can of Hormel's SPAM with bacon — that non-perishable staple of survival kits the world over — lists "pork," "ham" and "bacon." Separately. In that order. So what the heck is the difference between the three? According to ...  

BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The government announced Monday it will intervene to stop pork prices plunging excessively and shield pig farmers from market volatility. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planner and ...  

A European directive that could leave British pig farmers facing a £28 million bill has been criticised by agricultural accountants. New rules introduced by the European Commission will require pig producers to reduce the gap in slatted floors and keep ...  

Two pig farmers from the Western Galilee found themselves in the muck on Monday, when the Acre Magistrate’s Court fined them NIS 80,000 each for polluting local water supplies. Brothers Jaris and Wadia Haddid from the Western Galilee Christian Arab ...  

Irish pig farmers face average bills of at least €300,000 each in order to meet new regulations on sow housing, according to the latest Teagasc estimates. The average Irish pig farmer with a 550-sow herd will need to spend around €300,000 to convert ...  

A man tries to tear apart artificial pig ears that were found recently in Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi province. [Photo: Xinhua] Some stewed pig ears have been made from chemicals that could cause blood and heart problems in East China, sounding a fresh ...  

A delegation of British pig farmers is in China this week to further increase sales of live breeding pigs, pork and farm technology. Jim Paice, the Food Minister, flew out to join the group yesterday and will spend much of the next week drumming up trade ...  

Southern Living magazine includes Fort Lauderdale’s Georgia Pig among the best 20 barbecue joints in the South. The June issue, which hits newsstands May 25, includes a story called “The South’s Best Butt: 20 of the Best Barbecue Joints in the South.”  

Britain’s ailing pig industry will be able to start exporting offal, trotters and other culinary delights to China, the world’s biggest pig meat market, under a breakthrough trade deal to be sealed as early as next week. Jim Paice, the agriculture ...  

Ganzhou - A new food scandal has emerged in China as it was discovered fake stewed pig ears were being sold in a market in East China's Jiangxi province. According to China Daily, the local food safety authority, on May 14, declared it was discovered pig ...  

Ganzhou - A new food scandal has emerged in China as it was discovered fake stewed pig ears were being sold in a market in East China's Jiangxi province. According to China Daily, the local food safety authority, on May 14, declared it was discovered pig ...  

KIEV (Reuters) - A psychic pig is set to take over where Paul the Octopus left off at the 2010 World Cup by predicting the results of matches at the European championships in Ukraine and Poland. Kiev's city government said on Friday it would wheel out the ...  

A psychic pig is set to take over where Paul the Octopus left off at the 2010 World Cup by predicting the results of matches at the European Championships in Ukraine and Poland. Kiev's city government said it would wheel out the porky tipster to give daily ...  

Britons may love their bacon sandwiches, but the parts of the pig that most of us refuse to eat are to form the main dish in a £50m pork export deal with China. The first consignment is ready to be dispatched by Tulip, the UK's biggest producer and the ...  

THEY are the bits of a pig that are not usually available in East Yorkshire's supermarkets. Trotters, tails, ears and some offal normally go in the waste bin because they do not appeal to British tastes. But in China they are highly regarded delicacies ...  

In case you have any doubts what a restaurant called The Pig specializes in, Roald Dahl's poem "The Pig" adorns the entrance to Logan Circle's newest eatery. Step into the bathroom and Porky Pig, Miss Piggy and their porcine friends plaster the walls.  

WLWT.com A Hyde Park family pleaded for help on Monday after a cement statue of a pig disappeared from their front yard. The Gieseke family said the statue has turned into a neighborhood icon. "It has lived here for 10 years unharmed, and then Saturday ...  

On Friday night, Peter was on duty in our dorm of thirty boys. As we sat down to dinner with a dear old friend who had flown in from Denver earlier in the day, there was a knock on the door. The knocks continued throughout our meal, with Peter popping up ...  

Cases of the outbreak of swine erysipelas have been noticed in some parts of the Region. If proper measures are not implemented, then the pig population in the South West Region will certainly dwindle. This alarm bell follows reports of outbreaks of swine ...  

The McKittrick Hotel, the former home of performance art production Sleep No More, will play home to a new dramatic on June 3rd. Hosted by Underground Eats, this spectacle will be an homage to the 1939 World's Fair "theatricality to the tune of a Dali ...  

Due to the ridiculous success the Franklin Restaurant Group has seen from the pig roasts at Citizen Puplic House, they decided to introduce it at Franklin Cafe Southie as well. There are no private rooms at this spot, the high top table in the middle of ...  

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Who's going to win the European Championship? Time to ask an elephant - or a pig. Poland's answer to Paul the Octopus - the tentacled tipster who gained worldwide fame for his 2010 World Cup predictions - is Citta the elephant.  

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Who's going to win the European Championship? Time to ask an elephant - or a pig. Poland's answer to Paul the Octopus - the tentacled tipster who gained worldwide fame for his 2010 World Cup predictions - is Citta the elephant.  

NEW YORK (AP) — Paintings by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon and a work featuring one ton of handmade porcelain sunflower seeds by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei are among the artworks leading a Wednesday night contemporary art sale ...  

PORK and bacon prices will not be affected by a rise in the pig slaughter levy, the pork industry says. The levy - which goes towards promoting the pork industry - will be increased from July 1. But Australian Pork Limited CEO Andrew Spencer says the levy ...  

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - After picking up a trio of comedy pilots to series on Wednesday, Fox started filling its drama schedule by ordering a serial killer show starring Kevin Bacon and a mob medical project to series. But it cancelled J.J. Abrams ...  

Bacon is a universal breakfast favorite. This mother's day try Emeril's specially spiced bacon for something different. It's sure to be a hit with your mom. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with sides with aluminum foil, and ...  

In the introduction of his seminal 1917 pork products treatise Bacon and Hams, author and smoked swine maven George J. Nicholls included this photo of himself "in fancy dress as a side of bacon." The costume was so smashing that it won him no less than ...  

The state Legislature approved a measure on Tuesday allowing the Bacon Street Farm store in Natick to sell beer and wine for home consumption, effective immediately. Rick Ciccarelli, the third generation in his family to own the grocery store - better ...  

If you're a dedicated bacon lover, there's now a Vancouver takeout window to go absolutely hog wild for. Edible Canada opened its Granville Island to-go eatery Friday with an all bacon theme: A coast-to-coast "Tribute to Bacon." The menu features ...  

If you're a dedicated bacon lover, there's now a Vancouver takeout window to go absolutely hog wild for. Edible Canada opened its Granville Island to-go eatery Friday with an all bacon theme: A coast-to-coast "Tribute to Bacon." The menu features ...  

County Board Chairman Greg Bacon announced Monday he intends to run for the seat in District 2 that he had hoped to vacate at the end of his term in November. He announced last winter he wanted to spend more time with family and did not intend to run and ...  

As anyone with even a remote understanding of history knows, Greek food is considered the "food of the Gods" for the very simple reason of Greek mythology and for the very real reason that Greek food is considered Mediterranean and the Mediterranean diet ...  

In a world where bacon can be found in cupcakes and massage oil, and where brewers use any kind of fruit or spice you can name to flavour their beer, it was, perhaps, only a matter of time until the two trends collided. This week, one of the odder ...  

Compared to the fast-paced world of juicing and organic chocolate, not much happens in the land of ice cream sundaes. There are exceptions, like when Burger King sticks a couple strips of bacon in a chocolate-and-caramel sundae and starts test-marketing ...  

MAY 25--Meet Lonneshia Shafaye Appling. The Georgia woman, 26, was so determined to shoplift beer, bacon, cheese, and chicken wings from a Piggly Wiggly that she punched, spit at, and pepper-sprayed store workers who confronted her as she tried to flee the ...  

In celebration of all things bacon, Royal Oak will host the first ever Michigan BACONFEST, June 2 at the Royal Oak Farmer’s Market. The event is already sold out, so if you’re lucky enough to have your hands on a ticket, here’s a preview of what’s ...  

The Ministry for Primary Industries says new standards easing restrictions on pork imports are now in force, after legal attempts failed to block them. Industry body New Zealand Pork tried to prevent imports of untreated pig meat from countries that have ...  

BEIJING, May 18 (Xinhuanet) --China's pork prices continued to decrease this week, leading to widespread losses for the industry and prompting the government to take measures to prevent the prices from fluctuating greatly during the next few months.  

CINCINNATI, May 22 (UPI) -- A life-sized concrete pig taken from a Cincinnati home was found abandoned and damaged in the grass behind a cluster of businesses. Maggie Gieseke, whose pig statue was taken Saturday from the front yard of her family ...  

While I do not eat bacon often, I happily enjoy it every once in a while with a stack of pancakes or in a Cobb salad. Unfortunately, a recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health found that eating red meat can lead to increased risk of ...  

NAKHON RATCHASIMA : Government attempts to keep down fuel prices are not helping reduce the cost of farm products, vendors at a downtown fresh food market say. Pattaradorn Limkraiwattana, a pork trader at Mae Kim Heng market in Nakhon Ratchasima ...  

One word to describe the racing action Sunday night at the Kokomo Speedway is, Wow. In the sprint car feature event, Oklahoma open-wheel standout Brady Bacon drove Scott Ronk’s Fatheadz Eyewear No. 99 to a narrow victory over a hard-charging Jon ...  

While I do not eat bacon often, I happily enjoy it every once in a while with a stack of pancakes or in a Cobb salad. Unfortunately, a recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health found that eating red meat can lead to increased risk of ...  

Pork makes a great entree for families, tailgating, backyard BBQs and special holidays. Pork loin or tenderloin is also a great cut of meat to grill. Not only is it low in fat, but highly adaptable to many recipes. The biggest problem you might ...  

* Q2 EPS 48 cts vs. Wall Street view 42 cts * Q2 sales $2.01 billion vs. Wall St view $2.05 billion * Hormel affirms FY EPS view May 23 (Reuters) - Hormel Foods Corp posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday, boosted by Jennie ...  

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Two components of a sincerely straightforward breakfast: coffee and bacon. The smoke and tang and bold, humble flavor of both a palm-heating cup of coffee and a tongue-teasing strip of bacon appeals to many people. What's better, still, is that ...  

The Alliance of Food Processors, Providers and Stakeholders (AFPPS) on Monday cautioned local hog producers on its the planned five-day "pork holiday," saying that it will only result to price distortions of meat products. In a press conference ...  

Who's going to win the European Championship? Time to ask an elephant - or a pig. Poland's answer to Paul the Octopus - the tentacled tipster who gained worldwide fame for his 2010 World Cup predictions - is Citta the elephant. Ukraine, however ...  

Looks like Mayor Scott Smith now has a Bacon score of 3. For the uninitiated, your Bacon score is what you get when somebody plays your name in the Kevin Bacon Game, sometimes known as Six Degrees of Separation. So, for the mayor, it works like ...  

A psychic pig is set to take over where Paul the Octopus left off at the 2010 World Cup by predicting the results of matches at the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine. Kiev's city government said on Friday it would wheel out the porky ...  

If we are a city that loves its pigs, if this is region that embraces its swine history and sometimes calls itself Porkopolis, then this is a crime against all of us. A life-sized concrete pig was stolen from the front yard of the Gieseke home ...  

They swim out to meet visiting boats who often bring food. When we showed up at the beach on our first evening, we could see hoof prints in the sand, but unfortunately not a pig was in sight. We waited for about 20 minutes -- walking the beach ...  

NEW YORK (AP) — Paintings by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon and a work featuring one ton of handmade porcelain sunflower seeds by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei are among the artworks leading a Wednesday night contemporary ...  

Have we gone too far in our bacon-obsessed culture? Do you find yourself counting the hours since your last infusion of pig strips? Shaking in bacon withdrawal? Burger King is willing to bet that's the case. Of course, this should catch no one ...  

I am not a fan of potato salad. I know people love it. I even have a friend that eats potato salad sandwiches (he mean't to do it)! I just don't like the cold mayonnaise and mustard covered potatoes. All that being said, I loved this potato salad.  

LISLE, Ill., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gone are the days in which bacon was solely a breakfast staple. From milkshakes to roses and sundaes, bacon has popped up everywhere. And now, bacon has things covered in the deli case. Eckrich, part of ...  

Desmond Hatchett, of Knoxville, Tenn., has petitioned the state of Tennessee for relief of his child-support obligations. It seems that the 33-year-old minimum-wage earner has to divide 50 percent of his earnings with the 11 women with whom he ...  

A woman’s passion for potbellied pigs has gotten her in trouble with the law. Two years ago Florence Gruber took in two potbellied pigs as pets inside her home. As of Tuesday the Florence, N.J. woman had nearly three dozen pigs running around ...  

A woman’s passion for potbellied pigs has gotten her in trouble with the law. Two years ago Florence Gruber took in two potbellied pigs as pets inside her home. As of Tuesday the Florence, N.J. woman had nearly three dozen pigs running around ...  

"I believe that these children were coerced into saying that bad things were happening to them or that bad things were happening to them so that their mother's rights would be terminated..." Ville Platte business owners Marla and Barry Giglio ...  

Cameroon launched a pig vaccination program after an outbreak of erysipelas in the southwest region, said Agbaw Takang Robert, the regional delegate for livestock, fisheries and animal industries. All pig farmers in the region are required to ...  

Homemade macaroni and cheese often showed up on my desperate dinner table as the main entree when my kids were little. It was easy to boil some noodles, make a quickie cheese sauce and call it dinner. I’d sometimes add ham, pepperoni and even ...  

Throughout this week, I'm discussing grilling and sharing recipes that enable you to get the most out of your grill.  Yesterday, I talked about choosing a grill.  If by chance you missed the column, here's the link to it:  http://www.examiner ...  

Spirits were not dampened as thousands braved heavy rain to attend a popular fun day held at a Black Country park. Residents packed out Stourbridge’s Mary Stevens Park for the May Day Fun Day with large queues forming outside the venue yesterday.  

As if there weren't enough decadent bacon concoctions out there in the world... Actually, no there aren't. There's no such thing as "enough" when it comes to bacon. We feel that the world could use more bacon recipes. Therefore we created the ...  

In case you didn't know- Burger King is not only a U.S. fast food mogul. Burger King, like many other fast food giants, spreads its glutinous speedy wings into other parts of the globe. Not really a surprise though. To be honest, our American ...  

A 13-year-old Tamarac girl, who has ben missing since April 6, is in need of medication, according to her mother. Mildred Bacon says the family has been searching for Christee Bacon and handing out flyers in Lauderhill, where someone reported ...  

America's love for bacon has reached a fever pitch in the past few years and now, this bacon mania has spawned a new trend: Bacon tourism. You can pretty much eat your way across America all year long, from one sizzling bacon festival to another!  

KAYSVILLE -- The things teachers do for their students often exceed their duties in the classroom. Take kissing a pig for example. Windridge Elementary sixth-grade teachers and Principal Maren Zimmerman were expected to kiss a pig Friday and ...  

CRESTVIEW – The young pot-bellied pig who showed up last week at a Crestview home was reunited with her owners Friday. Bobby and Carol Simpson had been taking care of the pink and black pig and were actively looking for her owners or a new home.  

KIEV (Reuters) - A psychic pig is set to take over where Paul the Octopus left off at the 2010 World Cup by predicting the results of matches at the European championships in Ukraine and Poland. Kiev's city government said on Friday it would ...  

Here's a twist on mini-burgers that uses roasted beets instead of meat, as created by UnChu Littlefield of the local food blog "Tate's Kitchen" (www.tateskitchen.com). Littlefield recommends using Kings Hawaiian rolls or other soft, sweet rolls.  

Diners will find that Billy Zoellin is serving up a touch of whimsy in the down-home dishes on the menu at his new Bacon and Butter restaurant, which opens at 8 a.m. Sunday inside Club 21 at 1119 21st St. Zoellin revealed that he's worked up ...  

Pet or livestock? That’s the debate one Bellevue couple is having with the city about their potbelly pig. Cherie Sarrat and Christopher Linsey own Lucy, a 14-week old pot belly pig. They treat her as just another member of their family, but ...  

Mayor Bob Buckhorn was among about 1,500 people who attended the Rotary Pig Fest 2012 at the St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church on Cross Creek Boulevard recently. The ninth annual event united six area Rotary Clubs for an open-air food ...  

I’ve written blog posts over the past couple of years on many different topics, but this one, the fifth installment of the What Women Want BPI series on bacon brands, has got to be the hardest – because I have very little to say. You see, I ...  

Protests by activist group Greenpeace that blocked a bulk shipment of pig iron from Brazil to North America have drawn a frustrated response from U.S. steel mills and traders, who contend the industry has made significant steps in the right ...  

Actress Q'orianka Kilcher climbs from a makeshift platform on the anchor chain of the "Clipper Hope" cargo ship and returns to the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior" near the port of São Luis do Maranhão, Brazil. The day protest is currently ...  

You’d be surprised what’s in your lunch. When you look closer at what makes your American cheese melt well and your hotdog so delicious, you might cringe for a few minutes, but hopefully you also get curious about what other characteristics ...  

Question: I have tried to fix more pork lately for my family as an alternative to beef or chicken. Every time I fix pork chops, they have good flavor but end up dry and chewy. Do you have any suggestions? — Cooked Chops Answer: Dear Cooked ...  

This pork freezes well, and you can use it for loads of dishes. Stir it into a finished pot of greens or beans, add it to omelets, load it onto baked potatoes, and make pulled pork nachos or enchiladas. You might want to freeze it in a few ...  

This pork freezes well, and you can use it for loads of dishes. Stir it into a finished pot of greens or beans, add it to omelets, load it onto baked potatoes, and make pulled pork nachos or enchiladas. You might want to freeze it in a few ...  

This pork freezes well, and you can use it for loads of dishes. Stir it into a finished pot of greens or beans, add it to omelets, load it onto baked potatoes, and make pulled pork nachos or enchiladas. You might want to freeze it in a few ...  

That Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game is about to get a lot easier. The Philly-raised Bacon, who’s famously worked with at least half the actors in Hollywood, will be tracking a vast network of serial killers in “The Following,” a new drama ...  

That Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game is about to get a lot easier. The Philly-raised Bacon, who’s famously worked with at least half the actors in Hollywood, will be tracking a vast network of serial killers in “The Following,” a new drama ...  

The U.K. agreed to ship pork to China, the world’s biggest consumer of the meat, during Agriculture Minister Jim Paice’s trade mission there, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said. The deal, primarily to export offal ...  

NEW YORK – Tyson Foods Inc. said Monday its second-quarter profit climbed on higher chicken and pork results to $166 million, or 44 cents a share, from $159 million, or 42 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue at the Springdale, Ark.  

BEIJING May 9 (Reuters) - China's quarantine bureau has rejected a consignment of U.S. pork after tests found traces of a banned drug in meat shipments totalling 103.5 tonnes, but there was no immediate threat of broader retaliatory measures.  

A little worse for the wear, Jocelyn the pig has returned to her rightful place in Brian Carr’s yard. Carr, a Lubbock psychologist, said the 400-pound concrete Hampshire porker was stolen from his front lawn on April 7 or 8. Generally she ...  

Interested in adopting a young pig? Call the Simpsons at 689-1648. CRESTVIEW — It’s been more than a week since Bobby Simpson came out of his rural home to find a little pig in his garden rooting up last fall’s carrots. He called his wife ...  

Two pot belly piglets were returned to their owner’s care after Broward sheriff’s deputies said they Tazed the pig-napper and truck thief. The ordeal started Wednesday when Charlie Borquin was working at a home in Hollywood. The sprinkler ...  

Two local businesses—Linden Street Brewery and Chop Bar—came together in Oakland Sunday for their annual pig roast celebration, held on the third Sunday of every month between April and September. Dynamic, an Oakland based band, performed ...  

The NFL has been in the news a lot lately, and not for the usual reasons. Instead of the draft or the start of boot camp, public scrutiny has centered on the release of studies showing head trauma can lead to severe long-term mental distress.  

The take-out window at Edible Canada at Granville Island (1596 Johnston Street) opened Friday (May 18), and this year’s seasonal menu is dedicated to bacon. “Coast to Coast—A Canadian Tribute to Bacon” will feature dishes and ingredients ...  

“These critters are Asian Carp on four legs, essentially,” says Sam Hines, executive vice president of the Michigan Pork Producers Association. “Of all the invasive species, these are the worst of the worst.” The feral swine have adapted ...  

Conan O’Brien must have been fairly happy last night that he had the freedom TBS gives, because Bill Maher certainly made the most of it. Joking that coming to the show “felt like a real job” because he had to wake up before 2 PM to make ...  

Welcome to round eight of Spouse vs. Spouse, a series in which a couple of married food freaks, CNN’s Brandon and Kristy Griggs, square off in their Atlanta kitchen for culinary bragging rights – and invite you to weigh in, too. In each ...  

EDGERTON, Minn. – Randy Spronk likes to say that “hog production is in my genes.” Spronk, whose ancestors raised hogs in the Netherlands and who today is a pork producer in Edgerton, has been elected president-elect of the National Pork ...  

Pork stockpiles in the U.S. rose 20 percent at the end of April from a year earlier as production increased, the government said Tuesday. Warehouses held 659.5 million pounds of the meat, up from 549.3 million 12 months earlier, the U.S ...  

SPRING, Texas—A pet pig at the center of a year-long legal battle gets to stay with his family, a judge ruled Monday. "Oh my gosh when he said that, I just, it’s just unbelievable," said Wilbur’s owner Missy Sardo. Wilbur lives with the ...  

As the UK agrees a £50m trade deal with China, a look at the parts of a pig eaten there. Under the new trade deal - described by the British Pig Executive as "a wonderful achievement" - the UK is to begin exporting trotters, tails and ears.  

U.S. hog producers may have to “temper” expectations for pork shipments to China this year as the world’s biggest pork consumer ramps up production, said Joel Haggard of the U.S. Meat Export Federation. “We see through the remainder of ...  

U.S. hog producers may have to “temper” expectations for pork shipments to China this year as the world’s biggest pork consumer ramps up production, said Joel Haggard of the U.S. Meat Export Federation. “We see through the remainder of ...  

“Sowvivor: Outwit…Outplay… Outlast Diabetes.” The largest fundraiser of the year for American Diabetes Association, Kiss-a-Pig, ended on Saturday, May 19 at a gala at the Hyatt Regency Savannah. The campaign raised $326,000. A regional ...  

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The nationwide grocery store chain Safeway Inc. (SWY) announced plans Monday to eventually sell pork that comes from farms that don't confine breeding sows into small crates known as gestation stalls. Safeway's ...  

Probably every mom in the world has heard this question thousands of times: “Hey Mom, what’s for dinner.” If the answer is “salad,” the response might not be met with a lot of excitement. Make salad a much anticipated response when you ...  

Full disclosure: Adam Baldwin is a contributor to this site and a friend of mine, but he just became my hero. Our friends at Twitchy have the details: Last night Twitchy reported that actor Alec Baldwin dipped his toes into the pool of ...  

I'm more confident about grilling pork these days, now that the U.S. Department of Agriculture says I don't have to cook it past 145 degrees to stay safe. Under the former guideline — 160 degrees — I found there was too much danger of ...  

LeAnn Rimes wants Eddie Cibrian to know something – she’s ready for an addition to the family! The singer tweeted Monday that she wants her husband to adopt a mini pig, according to People magazine. “ Quote of the day …. ‘pigs are not ...  

BAY CITY, MI — Headlining this year's Labadie Pig Gig is 2011 "American Idol" winner Scotty McCreery. McCreery hits the stage Aug. 4. “He is an extremely talented young man,” said Wendy Dore, Pig Gig organizer. “He just turned 18, and ...  

Students at St. Dominic School can’t wait to see their pig on the streets of downtown Cincinnati. The school is taking part in this summer’s Big Pig Gig, an art project sponsored by ArtWorks and C-Change to honor the city’s Porkopolis ...  

DENVER (AP) — The money you’re saving on gasoline may go toward buying steaks, ribs and chicken for the barbecue. Meat prices are expected to rise faster than overall food costs in 2012. Prices rose in the spring and may increase an ...  

That’s what the label says: “pork with ham.” Is there a difference? According to the USDA, ham is the hind leg of a pig that’s been preserved, colored, and flavored through a process known as curing, while pork is just “meat from hogs.”  

The UK has agreed a £50m trade deal to sell British pork to China, the world's biggest market for pig meat. Much of the pork will be in the form of parts that are popular in China but not with British diners, such as offal and trotters.  

1. Set the oven at 425 degrees. Have on hand a 2-inch plain round cutter. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. 2. In a skillet over medium-high heat, render the bacon until crisp. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towels; cool.  

There are many phrases in the English language that evoke powerful emotions, although you’d be hard pressed to find many that do it better than “Bacon Cruise.” Yes, the folks on board the schooner Isaac H. Evans, which sails out of ...  

As expected, Fox has given Kevin Williamson’s “The Following” starring Kevin Bacon and James Purfoy, a spot on its 2012-13 schedule. Here’s the description of “The Following”: “an edge-of-your-seat thriller about the complex ...