A Dissertation upon Roast Pig

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The account attributes the accidental discovery of roasting, or rather broiling, to a manuscript whose story introduces the preparation of roast pig. The swineherd Ho-ti goes into the woods to collect food for his hogs and leaves his cottage in the care of his eldest son Bo-bo. Bo-bo lets sparks escape into straw, and the resulting fire spreads through the cottage until the building is reduced to ashes.

The narrator’s praise of roast pig specifies a young, tender suckling less than a month old rather than a grown animal. The narrator insists that the pig must be roasted and calls boiling a sacrifice.

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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).