Pork fatback with spices served on a table. - New Africa/Shutterstock Cooking with pig fat has been a part of food culture for centuries. Yet, differentiating between the many forms of pig fat can be ...

Jennifer McLagan celebrates the joys of cooking with fat in her book, Fat : An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes. She also discussed using leaf lard in cooking, especially in ...

If you've ever thumbed through a collection of Southern recipes, you probably noticed that a lot of them call for salt pork or fatback. Despite the fact that both cuts are simply fatty pieces of pork, ...