Should we go to the hog races first or the PigCasso art show? Welcome to bacony bliss, a three-day celebration of porcine proportions that draws 40,000 consumers, producers, and vendors to Iowa, the top pork-producing state in America. To keep those bellies filled as browsers take in the latest in farm technology and management tools, some 13 tons of piggly-wiggly are cooked on a custom 50-foot-by-10-foot grill. But the real highlight of the expo? The unveiling of imaginative new cuts of meat, such as pork chops on a stick and pig wings, which are tender bone-in shanks coated with sauce and eaten by hand. Here, piggy piggy piggy! -- Kate Rockwood

Wed, June 03
Pig Out
World Pork Expo
Des Moines, Iowa

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