Feet in the trough; Cured meat.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: December 23, 2006 | Copyright information

Made of pork, salt, air and time

The oldest method of preservation, and the best

ATO the Elder may have served Rome as quaestor, aedile, praetor and consul, but he came from an ancient plebeian family in the Sabine region. His ancestors were called Porcius, and his only complete surviving work, "De Agricultura", is a farming manual in which he pays tribute to his family origins with this recipe: "After buying legs of pork, cut off the feet. One-half peck groun...

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