This Week in Bacon
Every year since 1991, DC-based Citizens Against Government Waste has released its fantastic and valuable Congressional Pig Book (summary | book). An anti-pork nonprofit, CAGW rails against wasteful congressional pet projects.
This year’s CAGW pork database produces fifty-four different results in a “food” keyword search, including $2.5 million to the Congressional Hunger Center; $1.5 million to design foods for health (Michael Pollan just died and rolled over in his grave); and $1.3 million to survey monkfish and migratory finfish trawling.
This may be pork of a different sort, but at times when we (diners, restaurateurs, waitstaff, and the like) are tightening our own belts, it’d be especially nice to see Congress stop robbing us blind by forcing us to fund their needless food (and other) projects.
Bonus Pork “Link”: I dig that the CAGW pig book cover stands nicely alongside those of food giants Jane Grigson and Fergus Henderson.
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Aaron
