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New Year’s Suckling Pig
- by Nancy, December 30, 2008

Laura told me this morning as we were chatting on the phone that the Victorians loved to use pigs as a symbol of good luck and prosperity on their New Year’s cards and decorations (yes, this is really what we talk about which gives you an idea how jellypress was conceived . . .) Anyway, it makes sense, doesn’t it? If you had a pig, you had something to eat. These photos are just in from my brother, Bruce, an attorney and photographer, fresh from a recent trip to Madrid. These people are serious about their pigs.

This photo is a scan Bruce did of the restaurant Botin’s post card. Seems they made the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world’s oldest restaurant. Got a suckling pig anecdote? We’d love to hear from you. Happy New Year.

Photo credit: Bruce Ring

Photo credit: Bruce Ring
Photo credit: Bruce Ring

Photo credit: Bruce Ring


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I could eat this...I really could. But I think I would have to be looking very hard out the window while I did.
– Shay (January 29 2009 at 11:14)