Ossabaw Island
Island · Chatham County ·
Island hog roast recipes, conservation mission, unique pig breed
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Island hog roast recipes, conservation mission, unique pig breed
Georgia Get directions
"A small barrier island notable for its distinctive population of hogs; a feature story framed the island as the setting for an eccentric heiress’s audacious conservation mission to protect what the piece called North America’s most unusual pig, combining natural-history reporting with a human-driven effort to save an endangered local agricultural legacy." - Eater Staff
"Presented in a multi-page family- and tradition-rich recipe for a smoked island hog roast (or How to Host a Pig Roast), this account ties a heritage island hog breed to the author’s family land on the Georgia coast and to Gullah Geechee culinary history. It blends practical, often hands-on instruction — preferred breed notes; how to build a roasting pit using repurposed box springs; the old trick of placing an apple in the animal to promote even heat; and rendering fatback into leaf lard for frying — with ancestral context, aiming to point readers toward success while assuming some prior cooking knowledge." - Marian Bull