The results will cause any pork lover to swoon, but the prospect of procuring and boning a whole pig and then wrangling it over a fire pit in my small and densely wooded yard seemed beyond impossible in this lifetime.
But at a nearby school, we are shown what Calacharo says is the norm, asmall cluster of putrid open-pit latrines made of mud bricks worn to mere shells by rain and lack of repair.
The children apparently were trying to retrieve asmall "child-like pickaxe" at the bottom of the sloped pit when the dirt wall collapsed on them before 6 p.m.