Porc

Pig is the only critter on God’s green earth that goes whole hog for mankind. From tail to snout he is edible; his bristles become brushes; and only his squeal is wasted. As Charles Lamb admonished in his “Dissertation on Roast Pig”:

Pig, let me speak your praise . . .

Your sauce should be considered

Therefore, banish dear cook, I beseech you,

The whole onion tribe and

Barbecue your hog ... with

Plantations of the rank and guilty garlic.