I’ve been hearing a lot about kurobuta pork lately. What is it and is it worth the price?

What Kobe is to beef (or to use another metaphor, what Hermès is to handbags) kurobuta is to pork—a special breed of hog that’s simply the richest-tasting on earth. Kurobuta (literally black pig) is the Japanese name for a Berkshire hog—a crossbreed of wild and domestic hogs developed in the English shire of Berk three-hundred years ago during the reign of Oliver Cromwell (whose troops were reported to be the first to discern its virtues). The English gave breeding stock to the United States and Japan in 1875: The rest, as they say, is history.