The Hog Book

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The Hog Book is a 2022 James Beard Award winner in the single subject category. The Hog Book is a comprehensive guide to hunting, butchering, and cooking wild hogs, with easy-to-fo llow instructionals and recipes categorized by hog size and sex. Inside these 416 pages, you’ll find: tips on locating and hunting hogs, alongside compelling stories of the hunt diagrams for building a simple trap shot placement guides tools and methods for skinning and gutting hogs highly-detailed butchery sequences and instructionals Over 100 recipes cover how to brine, cure, smoke and grill, alongside how-tos for making sausage, stock, charcuterie and cooking offal and hog heads. Recipes range from quick weekday dinners to elaborate, celebratory deep dives, with a few desserts and baked goods as well. Sauces, salsas, and complementary side dish recipes are found throughout. Show more