A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban strang...er to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation.... I don't mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a s...tate which is neither poetry nor anything else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a que...stion of taste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs. If we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on th...e coals for money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pork sizzles and cries for fish. Luckily for the foolish race, and this particularly foolish generation of trout, the night sh...ut down at last, not a little deepened by the dark side of Ktaadn, which, like a permanent shadow, reared itself from the eastern bank.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capac...ity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, afte...r all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »