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Pigs

A rolled up ball of sagí, about to be dunked in flour and added to a stew.

Sagí

Rancid pork fat infuses Catalan cuisine with a blend of gamey, sour, and spicy flavors.

Sanguinaccio Dolce

Italians make a bloody delicious chocolate pudding.

An agouti roasts over a modern-day boucan.

Boucan

This grill defined a new breed of pirates.

Muenster has a creamy interior and a characteristic red-gold rind.

Wild Boars Are Putting One of France's Smelliest Cheeses at Risk

The monsters menacing Muenster.

Natasha Frost January 4, 2018

Are lemon pigs an old-new tradition?

Lemon Pigs Are the World’s Newest New Year’s Tradition

They go viral roughly every 50 years.

Anne Ewbank January 3, 2018

Most blood pancakes get topped with lingonberries.

Blood Pancakes

Scandinavians use blood to make dense, dark, savory flapjacks.

Tennille, Georgia

Pig Monument

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

Part of the collection.

Pigs Aloft Museum

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

The "pet ham" is 119 years old.

Smithfield, Virginia

World’s Oldest Edible Ham

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

Prehistoric hand prints in a cave in Maros.

Bantimurung, Indonesia

Prehistoric Cave Art of Maros Pangkep

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Daisy II and Paul "Farmer" Minor, performing for an appreciative audience last week in Baton Rouge.

The Pig Who Tours the U.S. Reading to Children

The world's least likely literacy ambassador is big and bristly and loves to kiss authority figures.

Cara Giaimo June 12, 2017

Some feral hogs.

Balloons Might Be Used to Fight Hogs in Texas

The state is home to, they say, way too many.

Erik Shilling May 11, 2017

Ebbets Field Apartments in April 2017.

Brooklyn, New York

Ebbets Field Apartments

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

Meet San Francisco Airport's New Welcome Pig

LiLou was hired for "her overall cuteness."

Cara Giaimo December 8, 2016

Meet Miracle, a 3-Week-Old Disabled Piglet Who Walks on 2 Legs

Would you consider adopting him?

Cara Giaimo September 27, 2016

Scientists Are Trying to Grow Human Organs Inside of Pigs

Welcome to the future.

Erik Shilling June 6, 2016

The Statue of St. Anthony's Pig

La Alberca, Spain

Statue of St. Anthony's Pig

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

Bulls of Guisando

El Tiemblo, Spain

Bulls of Guisando

Whether they are bulls or pigs, these ancient animal sculptures are fascinating relics.