{"product_id":"shelbys-lady-the-hog-poems-9781594980725","title":"Shelby's Lady: The Hog Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA freezing cold winter day, a disemboweled 250-pound hog hangs over a vat of hot water in the farmyard. The carcass will be scalded and scraped clean. A few neighbors have come to help and the women are already cleaning the chitterlings that will encase the sausage made from meat scraps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking sausage was my favorite part of the day. After the meat has been ground, then comes the seasoning: salt, red pepper, and sage from a nearby bush. The women mix it, then fry up a few \"try pieces.\" \"Needs more salt,\" one woman will say. \"More pepper,\" says another. \"You need a little more heat in there.\" The samples are passed around to get everyone's opinion - even a child's if I'm lucky because with so much going on, I've long since run off my lunch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eShelby's Lady: The Hog Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, Shelby Stephenson has captured all the hard and often dirty work that goes into prepping and preserving a slaughtered pig before refrigerators were common. I remember salting the hams, drying the links of sausage or rendering the fat for lard. Shelby shows us again a way of life that has almost completely disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Maron\u003c\/strong\u003e, North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shelby Stephenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fernwood Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594980725","brand":"Fernwood Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46428620914825,"sku":"9781594980725","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_bd4af455-5467-458e-8cca-64dfd040ba4f.jpg?v=1778014581","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/shelbys-lady-the-hog-poems-9781594980725","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}