You may be asking yourselves why buy this book. All other cook books have many recipes for all occasions. Our book has but one recipe for just one occasion. The event is commonly known as the pig roast. We wrote this book because we feel there was so much more to the story than just cooking a hog. We take you on a ride through the many adventures we encountered as cateres of the pig roast chronicles. Our intent is to make you laugh, recall the past, wonder in disbelief, and to aquire the know-how so you too can build your own roaster, roast your own hog, and maintain proper social etiquette...

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