Hog Meat and Hoecake Quotes

“An ex-slave commented on their gastronomical worth: “but verily there is nothing in all butcherdom so delicious as a roasted ’possum.”
― Sam Bowers Hilliard, Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860

“After observing southern culture for some time, Emily Burke concluded that the people of the South would not think they could subsist without their [swine] flesh; bacon, instead of bread, seems to be THEIR staff of life. Consequently, you see bacon upon a Southern table three times a day either boiled or fried.16”
― Sam Bowers Hilliard, Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860

“In reminiscing about the area between Augusta and Wilkes County in Georgia one writer remarked: The grand groves of oak and hickory had not been felled save in occasional spots. The annual fires of the Indian had kept down all undergrowth, and the demands of the stock-raiser had still called for those annual burnings; so that grass and flowers and flowering shrubs covered the surface of the earth with a vesture equal to that of a regal park.”
― Sam Bowers Hilliard, Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860