Raw whale-meat bacon (a.k.a. blubber) was white, hard to swallow and tasted like pork fat injected with cod-liver oil.

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The rillettes in a potted-duck appetizer were packed tightly into a small glass jar and sealed with a thick layer of creamy, peppered lard for spreading on toast triangles, while a mammoth pork chop, marbled with luscious fat, tasted of buttered popcorn.

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Red Apron does a 50-50 split between pork and beef with a 75-25 split between meat and fat.

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The result was interesting, Unlike pork, the wild boar ribs had two distinct layers, sort of like pork belly, with a layer of meat and a layer of fat almost perfectly split horizontally.

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The iron stove had a cast-iron warmer on the top, and in that warmer would be pork roasts and pork chops and fried chicken, two gallon pots of butter beans with salt pork, navy beans with ham bone, rattlesnake beans glistening with bacon fat, pans of chicken and dressing, macaroni and cheese, cornbread and cathead biscuits, mounds of mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, skillets of fried green tomatoes.

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Ramen noodle dishes such as tan tan men (whole-wheat egg noodles and spicy miso with pork and spicy homemade sausage), dumplings and hot tapas (locals line up for the duck-fat fried chicken) are local favorites.

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