Pig Tales

Pig Tales
Author: Marie Darrieussecq
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1998-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781565844421

A young woman who lands a position at a beauty parlor enjoys great success until she slowly metamorphoses into a pig

Pig Tales

Pig Tales
Author: Robert Phillips
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1532057717

Who lines up to have people try to shoot them, knife them, blow them up, and threaten them with bodily harm? Everyone who is part of the law enforcement family—that’s who. That includes Robert Phillips, who got his start as a sheriff’s officer in April 1998. When he reported for duty on his first day, the senior day-shift sergeant asked him if he was in the National Guard or the Reserves, and when he said no, he was told he’d be good man for the day shift. He wasn’t long on the job before an inmate—while trying to escape—put a knife to his throat. Another inmate distracted the potential escapee and Phillips was able to call for help. Craving more excitement, Phillips eventually became a “real” police officer. He wanted to take part in car chases, get shot at, go to robbery-in-progress calls, and make drug arrests. Get an insider’s view of what it’s like to belong to the law enforcement family with this no-holds-barred collection of Pig Tales.

Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat

Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
Author: Barry Estabrook
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2015-05-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393248038

A Splendid Table Staff Book Pick of the Year "Estabrook, a reporter of iron constitution and persistence, has dug deep into the truth about the American pork industry without losing his sense of humor and humanity." —Christopher Kimball, Wall Street Journal In Pig Tales, New York Times best-selling author of Tomatoland Barry Estabrook turns his attention to the dark side of the American pork industry. Drawing on personal experiences raising pigs as well as sharp investigative instincts, Estabrook covers the range of the human-porcine experience. He shows how these intelligent creatures are all too often subjected to lives of suffering in confinement and squalor, sustained on a drug-laced diet just long enough to reach slaughter weight. But Estabrook also reveals how it is possible to raise pigs responsibly and respectfully, benefiting producers and consumers—as well as some of the top chefs in America. Provocative, witty, and deeply informed, Pig Tales is bound to spark conversation at dinner tables across America.

Pig Tale

Pig Tale
Author: Verlyn Flieger
Publisher: Hyperion
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2002-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780786807925

Near the village of Little Wicken, a baby girl is found abandoned in a field. Unwanted and unloved, the foundling grows up, existing on the grudging charity of the villagers. It is only when they notice her way with animals that the girl is given a permanent place—as a pig herder—and a name: Mokie, meaning “Little Pig Girl.” After a brutal attack by the village boys, fifteen-year-old Mokie flees with her beloved pig, Apple, into the heart of the mysterious Wickenwood. It is there that Mokie meets a trio of Gypsies, who take her under their wing. But she soon discovers that her new friends are more than they appear to be. Could they hold the key to her past. . .and her future? In her debut novel, Verlyn Flieger weaves elements from Celtic mythology into an unforgettable tale that explores universal truths about the human condition—society’s need for scapegoats, the yearning to belong, and love’s transcendent power to make the world anew. Thought-provoking, unflinching, and original, Pig Tale will break your heart, and utterly astonish you.

The Year of the Dog

The Year of the Dog
Author: Oliver Chin
Publisher: Immedium
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1597020028

Describes the qualities of people who are born in the Year of the Dog through the story of a puppy who is born under the sign.

Pig Tale

Pig Tale
Author: Helen Oxenbury
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781442421530

A warm sty to lie in and cool mud for a wallow are not enough to satisfy two bored pigs named Bertha and Briggs. Their minds are bent on money and riches. So when they find a treasure chest, they head straight for town. They buy dresses and suits, an expensive new car, and a house filled with gadgets. Now they'll live the good life. But the gadgets cause a lot of trouble. The car breaks down; the washer overflows; the TV goes on the blink. Bertha and Briggs are working so hard, they have no time to play! Soon their new clothes are thrown to the wind, and two happy pigs head back to the country for a carefree roll in the mud. Helen Oxenbury gleefully illustrates Bertha and Briggs bumbling their way through a life of luxury. And kids will agree that romping and playing beat mowing the lawn any day!

The Pig: Tales and Recipes from the Kitchen Garden and Beyond

The Pig: Tales and Recipes from the Kitchen Garden and Beyond
Author: Robin Hutson
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1784726230

The Pig is a collection of restaurants with rooms in Hampshire, Devon, Dorset and Somerset - and soon in Kent, West Sussex and Cornwall. Now, everyone can enjoy The Pig from the comfort of their own homes. Among the pages of The Pig you will find an idiosyncratic, seasonal approach to the good life, with delicious recipes, how-to guides, tips, tricks and stories. Inside the pages of The Pig you will find: Classic recipes from Nan's rice pudding to proper fish pie, porchetta, gammon with parsley sauce, devilish devilled kidneys on toast, a right old eton mess and even a pink blancmange bunny. The Pig's Guide to Pigs from identifying different breeds and selecting the best cuts of meat to making your own sausages, crackling and charcuterie. How to pickle, forage and identify edible flowers and suggestions on how to bring the weird and wonderful vegetables, fruits and salads from the garden into the kitchen. Noble wine, simple food from classic cocktails to modern twists and all the best accompaniments. Interior design recreating the comfort and elegance of The Pig at home. Setting the scene, The Pigs top tips on hosting your own festivals, summer feasts and winter gatherings, including creating the perfect playlist to the best recipes to cook outdoors. Praise for the book: 'For us at home, the cookbook provides the perfect inspiration.' The Telegraph Magazine Praise for The Pig Hotels: Rick Stein: 'Dinner, bed and breakfast at The Pig, any Pig, is a comforting thought of some lovely flavoured pork, a British abundance of vegetables and some fabulous red wine.' The Sunday Times: 'There isn't a trace of cynicism here - just enthusiasm, craft and people who love what they do, creating a place you really, really don't want to leave.' The Financial Times 'Some inherited memory of a weekend with grandparents I never had... a little bohemian, and unbelievably good at cooking.' Tom Parker Bowles: 'The Pig revolutionised the country house hotel, creating a true home away from home. No pomp or pretence, just beautiful rooms and magnificent food with produce from their own kitchen gardens. Where The Pig goes, the others follow.'

The Hutchinson Book of Pig Tales

The Hutchinson Book of Pig Tales
Author: Random House
Publisher: Hutchinson Radius
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2000
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780091769345

In England once there lived a bigAnd wonderfully clever pig.From Roald Dahl's canny pig in Dirty Beasts to Colin McNaughton's Preston Pig the Masked Avenger, this wonderful collection brings together a remarkable selection of pig tales and poems from some of children's books finest authors and illustrators. There's Jon Blake and Susie Jenkin-Pearce's Wriggly Pig, the pig with Fidget-itis; Holly Keller's Geraldine trying to come to terms with the arrival of her baby brother; the Finnish tale, Alfred the Small; Tony Ross's brilliant re-telling of a classic fairy tale in The Three Pigs; Nicholas Allan's popular pig, Claude Curlytail from A Pig's Book of Manners; Inga Moore's truffle hunter, Martine; Susanna Gretz's inimitable Roger, getting himself into trouble once again in Roger Mucks In! and many more.

Sight Word Tales

Sight Word Tales
Author: Scholastic Inc.
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780545016421

Jumpstart reading success with these lively storybooks that teach the top 100 sight words! Includes a BIG teaching guide filled with lessons, practice pages, and reproducible versions of all 25 storybooks.

Lesser Beasts

Lesser Beasts
Author: Mark Essig
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0465040683

Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend—yet their flesh is banned in many cultures, and the animals themselves are maligned as filthy, lazy brutes. As historian Mark Essig reveals in Lesser Beasts, swine have such a bad reputation for precisely the same reasons they are so valuable as a source of food: they are intelligent, self-sufficient, and omnivorous. What’s more, he argues, we ignore our historic partnership with these astonishing animals at our peril. Tracing the interplay of pig biology and human culture from Neolithic villages 10,000 years ago to modern industrial farms, Essig blends culinary and natural history to demonstrate the vast importance of the pig and the tragedy of its modern treatment at the hands of humans. Pork, Essig explains, has long been a staple of the human diet, prized in societies from Ancient Rome to dynastic China to the contemporary American South. Yet pigs’ ability to track down and eat a wide range of substances (some of them distinctly unpalatable to humans) and convert them into edible meat has also led people throughout history to demonize the entire species as craven and unclean. Today’s unconscionable system of factory farming, Essig explains, is only the latest instance of humans taking pigs for granted, and the most recent evidence of how both pigs and people suffer when our symbiotic relationship falls out of balance. An expansive, illuminating history of one of our most vital yet unsung food animals, Lesser Beasts turns a spotlight on the humble creature that, perhaps more than any other, has been a mainstay of civilization since its very beginnings—whether we like it or not.