Katie Boyts // Santa Fe, New Mexico Editorial note: This week Pork Memoirs is being guest edited by Cassandra Renee…
Sunday Swine
Josh Venne // Highland, NY You can find “Sunday Swine” and four other memoirs on “Pork and Identity” in the…
Inheritance
Michael R. Boone // Plano, TX You can find “Inheritance” and four other memoirs on “Pork and Identity” in the…
Passover Pad Thai
Nitzan Ziv // Brooklyn, NY Last spring my aunt came to visit me in New York and my family took…
The Search for a Messianic Ham
Jake Levin // Great Barrington, MA Jake Levin is an artist and nose-to-tail butcher. He grew up in the hills…
A Muslim Guest at a Protestant Wedding
Leslie Sinclair // Toronto, Ontario I couldn’t find the “check here for chicken” option on the RSVP card for my…
Lard of a Lifetime
Eliza Kinkz // Redwood City, CA At age four, I watched as the ladle dripped sausage gravy all over the…
Pork and Identity: A Meatpaper and Pork Memoirs Collaboration
Various Contributors // Pork Memoirs + Meatpaper Meatpaper has documented the fleischgeist since its launch in 2007. The magazine—“your journal…
HAM-antaschen
Ari Miller // Tel Aviv, Israel Hamantaschen were an annual feature of my American-Jewish childhood. I made them with my…
A Waspy Summer
Avigail Hurvitz Prinz // Tel Aviv, Israel These days I live in Israel. Here I’m referred to as an “Anglo…