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Bacon, Poetry and Love
Bacon, Poetry and Love
A poem and a new book confirm - bacon is everyone's favorite meat!.
Arcimboldo - The Cook
Arcimboldo - The Cook
A painting of a platter of delicious roast suckling pig and fowls, when flipped, becomes the image of the cook who prepared the dish.
A Brief History of Pigs and Flight
pig in flight
The aerodynamic potential of pigs has long been debated. Can a curvilinear tail assembly function as a rudder?

A Character of Paradox

Porkopolis.org is a collection of arts, literature, philosophy and other varied considerations of the pig. In the irreducible complexity of what we call nature, pigs are one of the most iconic and paradoxical animals ever to have developed a relationship with man. Some form of pig has been visibly present in the vast majority of human societies. The pig is a grand character in much of human’s cultural history.

Savory and Intelligent

Under collective consideration and scrutiny, hogdom’s complex and ever-changing relationship with humans seems to place the pig uneasily into more »