Pork
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We have finally outgrown the traditional sausage. Those sad little tubes of fat have been replaced by 'premium' bangers, crammed to bursting with real meat and fresh herbs. One in three comes from a little-known Yorkshire company, without which this revolution might never have happened. Martin Wainwright visits the home of the super-sausage.
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Obituary: The author of The Pork Butcher, he strove for perfection throughout his 11 novels.
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Gone cold on turkey? Fear not, with a little help from his friends, Nigel Slater gives the year's Big Meal a leg up with a cracking pork-and-gingerbread alternative.
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Leader: If Tony Blair wants to find the place where Labour really is working, Melton Mowbray, revealed this week to have the most people working (proportionate to population) in the UK, may be it.
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Notebook: Odd timing but an important crusade.
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Lyall Watson's The Whole Hog and Fergus Henderson's Nose To Tail Eating are enough to get Ian Sansom reaching for the pork scratchings.
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Greggs, the UK's biggest high street baker, reported a rebound in sales today and said profits were in line with expectations despite soaring sausage meat costs.
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Pork steaks injected with water, in what is a common practice among suppliers to large supermarkets, contain up to six times more sodium than an unadulterated piece of meat, an investigation revealed yesterday.
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Civil servants and lawyers are in for a tasty and prolonged piece of adjudication over the nature of a pork pie.
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It is one of the oldest adulteration tricks in the book - selling water instead of meat. And now a survey has found that the practice has spread to fresh pork sold in the big supermarkets.
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They're heart-attack inducing wedges of stodge, aren't they? Not at all, says the Pork Pie Appreciation Society - you just have to know where to find the good ones. Peter Cossins joins them down the pub in Yorkshire for a night of tasting.
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I was intrigued by the parenthetical reference to France as "Haiti's former colonial power" (Roundup as Haiti rebels head for capital, February 24).
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If you're counting the pennies, pork goes easy on your wallet and your taste buds, says Nigel Slater.
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Fifty years ago, a pork chop would have cost you twice as much as it does today. Economic miracle? Not if you're a pig farmer...
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The tabs are full of it today, "it" being sport, but only three caught the eye of Anthony Lee.
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You've neither the time not inclination to leaf through today's sports pages. Luckily, Nick Harper has both in spades, and he's done the donkey work for you...
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QUICK! EVERYONE INTO THE ANDERSEN SHELTER!
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US farm subsidies undermine free trade.
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CBI lobbies Washington on trade war
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12pm: As BSE crisis talks are held in Berlin, McDonald's has launched a burger made entirely out of pork in Germany, reports Daniel Rogers.
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Unigate yesterday blamed the swine fever outbreak for preventing its pork processing plant in North Yorkshire returning to profit. The company had hoped pig prices would have fallen by now and bolstered its under-pressure Malton site.
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An EU ban on the export of live pigs and pig semen from England will be eased this week, days after it was imposed, providing a welcome boost for the hard-pressed pork and bacon industry.
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Everything you need to know about the battle to sell British pork on the net
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A decently reared pig makes all the difference to the taste of the meat on your plate, says Matthew Fort. And that's not porkies
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Leg of pork with artichokes and onions, rillettes, crackling, sausages and twice-cooked pork. Jeremy Lee shares some of his favourite recipes
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The government yesterday issued a health warning after an outbreak of listeria in France resulted in seven deaths. The virus is believed to come from fresh refrigerated pork tongue in jelly which has been produced in France.
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A crisis in British pig farming is putting hundreds of jobs at risk, with pig production down nearly 10% in a year.
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Belgium was in the grip of a new food health scare last night as pork products were removed from sale after the government admitted that thousands of pigs may have been given animal feed contaminated with dioxin.
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Imports impounded as scare over dioxin contamination in Belgian farms escalates
Pork with added poke
This week's column is about pig racing. It was going to be about winding up Leeds fans.