Since 1986, the Slow Food movement has identified 254 presidia, or authentic artisanal food products, in Italy, from lardo fatback to onions, garlic, artichokes and apricots.
As a fifth generation Alabamian who was raised in the Deep South tradition of cooking vegetables with bacon or fatback, and frying the dickens out of meats, I wanted to expand upon the answer your publication gave.
Whenever he played the song for her, she'd dash into the kitchen and appear moments later with a bounty of grapes and salted fatback. Wheedie felt the song invested in him a degree of control over his claustrophobic domestic parcel, but now the music had left him and he had smashed his guitar.
D.C.'s regular folk line the sidewalks in front of this small, cinder block joint for soul-infused specialties like turkey wings with homemade stuffing, mountainous portions of collards and perfect pork chops smothered in thick gravy, plus old-school favorites like a fatback breakfast platter.