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...Japan and China, this is the Year of the Dog. In the U.S., it looks suspiciously like the Year of the Hog. Suddenly, for old and young alike, Sus domestica, the farmyard pig, seems to be displacing the cat as a national object of whimsy, affection, satire and extravagant punnery. From the Hog Wild! store in Boston's Faneuil Hall Market Place to three Hogography gift shops in Arkansas to the Hogs & Kisses emporium in San Francisco, retailers' shelves are packed with greeting cards, books, posters, clothes, games, stuffed toys, jewelry, office accessories (oink-wells), bumper stickers (HAVE...
Much as Miss Piggy might like to claim that moi is responsible, the porker boom began long before the Muppets' superstar made her bow. Miss P., sniffs Lucinda Vardey, co-author of the anthology of pig lore, Pigs: A Troughful of Treasures (Macmillan; $14.95), "has done a lot for pig relations, but she is not a true pig. She is purely human and has very few pig qualities." Vardey's collaborator, Sarah Bowman, feels that the pig boomlet has ancient roots. "The love of pigs is an inborn thing," she says. "I have always thought that wallowing...
...fever can strike anyone, anywhere. Betty Talmadge, ex-wife of Georgia's former Senator Herman Talmadge-and author of an excellent cookbook, How to Cook a Pig-has been acquiring porcine memorabilia for seven years. Chicago's Charles Braverman, a commodities trader in pork bellies, owns, among other items, a $2,000 brass pig dinner bell, a $2,400 pig ashtray and a 100-lb. lead pig, which adorns the front of his house. David Mercer, 36, a former lawyer who started Boston's Hog Wild! in 1978, mails the Hogalog catalogue advertising his "Pork Avenue Collection...
...rapidly growing mound of pig literature includes a racy paperback cartoon book called Pigs in Love (Clarkson N. Potter; $3.95), about Porkov and Daisy, whose amours are described as "an adult love story for pigs and sows everywhere." The author-artist, Revilo (real name: Oliver Christiansen), was originally commissioned to do a cat book but found felines "too aloof." Says...
...Pigs really know how to live. That's why I started drawing them instead of people." Another successful volume is The Pig-Out Diet Book, published (at $2.95) by the Bacon Printing Co. and written by two New England doctors, Bernhoff Dahl and David Fingard. The book prescribes a regimen of no breakfast, no lunch, but a "pig out" dinner; it has sold some 16,000 copies...