(I imagine that Lord Grantham's grandson, assuming he was still trying to balance Downton's books, would be renting out rooms, selling pork, or perhaps offering horse rides around the family estate).
There is a wide array of other chicken, beef, pork, and shrimp offerings.
And in 2014, Le Pen raised eyebrows when she said her party would prevent schools from offering pork-free kosher and halal options to students in towns where it had won local elections.
Among the drugstores and the inescapable Chinese takeout were hair braiding parlors and restaurants offering jerk pork, curried goat, oxtail and cow feet.
In a different style, Catoonah Kitchen and Bar (23 1/2 Catoonah Street; 203-438-6839) proved to be informal, fun and Very Good indeed, offering barbecue pork and white bean quesadilla, pecan brie fritters with grilled shrimp and Cajun fried calamari.
"Mangalitsas are very hardy, with their woolly coats," said Michael Clampffer, who is raising 120 of them at his Mosefund Farm in Branchville, N.J., selling their pork to restaurants and offering chops, sausage, bacon and lard on Sundays at the New Amsterdam Market in Manhattan.
Man Fook Low, which opened in 1928, was arguably the first restaurant to serve dim sum in Los Angeles, offering chasu pork buns, hargow and shumai as early as the 1930s.
She was famously jealous and violent, and Hawaiians tried to propitiate her with offerings of pork, fish, liquor.
In the last six months, ButcherBox has added organic chicken and pastured pork to its subscription offerings, partnering with four farms to ship boxes of meat to customers nationwide.
"I see it as an extension of the low-carb craze of a couple of years back," said the executive chef, Jason Bowlin, whose gluten-less offerings include pork belly with roasted apples.
