To Cook a Pig

Lee Foote
5 min readDec 15, 2023

Yes, there is something very carnal about the photo above, shockingly so. It almost deserves a thong on there and what is with that little stub of a tail? Ewww . . . It is actually a thing of beauty in the early stages of loving preparation for a celebration. We were going to cook a couchon de lait or suckling pig, intact over a barbeque pit.

This is a saga of porcine delight. A story of community, time and sauce. My lovely wife was…

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Lee Foote

Southerner by birth, Northerner by choice, Casual person by nature.