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Moving beyond normative debates over whether eating local is a moral good, Brad Weiss shows us that locality itself comes into view through American understandings of what 'good' food is and should be. Real Pigs gives us rich fodder to think well about the interconnections of taste and place, consumption and production, capital and labor, humans and animals in the contemporary United States. --Heather Paxson, author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

Moving beyond normative debates over whether eating local is a moral good, Brad Weiss shows us that locality itself comes into view through American understandings of what 'good' food is and should be. Real Pigs gives us rich fodder to think well about the interconnections of taste and place, consumption and production, capital and labor, humans and animals in the contemporary United States. -- Heather Paxson, author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America I have covered the Triangle's food scene since 2007, interviewing and profiling many of the same people as Brad Weiss. Revealing layers to the local food movement and the production of pasture-raised pork that were previously unknown to me, Real Pigs is a fascinating examination of a local market and by extension, any local market in the United States. -- Andrea Weigl, News & Observer (Raleigh)

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Brad Weiss is Professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary and the author of The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice, also published by Duke University Press, and Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania.

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