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(b) "I paid closer attention when I noticed which parts of the pig he's [chef's] cooking. He will boil ham hocks with collard greens * * * He stews pigs' ears until they surrender their ornery stiffness, then slices and fries them into irresistible, crunchy sticks. He seasons okra and tomatoes with a North African spice mix and stews them with hog maw, otherwise known as the outer wall of the stomach. * * * By the way, he cooks chitterlings, too. These are the cuts that enslaved black people on plantations were allowed to keep when hogs were killed; after Emancipation, these were the cuts they might have had the money to afford and the skills to make into something memorable. * * * Of course, much of the huge edifice of Southern food was built by black farmers and black cooks: as enslaved people in plantation kitchens and in their own families' cabins; later, as domestic servants, hotel chefs, railroad cooks, restaurateurs and entrepreneurs."
(i) ham hock
(A) Firstly, human anatomy. A human thigh (femur in it), knee, calf (tibia and fibula), ankle (7 tarsal bones, the largest of which underlines heel), metatarsal bones (there are five), each of which connects a toe.
tarsus (skeleton)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsus_(skeleton)
(B) meta- (prefix; from Greek meta with, across, or after): "denoting position * * * beyond"
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/meta-
(C) In humans, metatarsal bones, part of the sole, are on the ground. Not terrestrial quadrupeds (including but not limited to pig, horse, dog and cat) , whose hock (equivalent to a human ankle) is the joint where tibia (as well as fibula) meets (7) tarsal bones. See Canine Anatomy, Veterian Key, undated.
https://veteriankey.com/canine-anatomy/
(Figs 5-2 and 5-3)
(ii) ornery (adj; What's the History of ORNERY?): "difficult to deal with or control"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ornery
(iii)
(A) hog maw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog_maw
("is the exterior muscular wall of the stomach organ (with interior, lining mucosa removed)"/ section 1.3 Chinese cuisine: 猪肚)
(B) I search the Web and fail to find a reason to remove the lining. In fact, Some people eat pig stomach with lining on. See How To Clean Pig’s Maw / Stomach. Delicious Asian Food, Oct 26, 2007
www.deliciousasianfood.com/2007/ ... n-pigs-maw-stomach/
("Repeat the process until you have rubbed out all the impurities on the lining. Then, turn the pig's maw inside out and repeat the process. Rinse with water after you have done. Next, heat up a wok and sear the pig’s maw on the outer side")
The home page of this web site stated, "This site is authored by PabloPabla, a Malaysian chinese of Hokkien dialect"
(C) Compare
tripe (n): "stomach tissue especially of a ruminant (such as an ox) used as food"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tripe
, which is (smooth muscle also) wall.
How to Cook Beef Tripe. WikiHow, undated
https://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Beef-Tripe
(Part I Cleaning and Preparing Tripe: "After soaking, scrape the interior of the tripe with a knife to remove the inner membrane. Stomach lining is a complex tissue - parts of it are good to eat, but other parts aren't. The interior membrane should be removed if it hasn't")
(iv)
(A) chitterlings (n): (plural noun): "the smaller intestines of a pig, cooked as food"
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/chitterlings
(B) chitterlings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitterlings
("usually made from the small intestines of a pig, although the intestines of cattle and other animals are sometimes used")
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