Salad bars in pork city

Cincinnati isn’t the only town in the country that’s bringing salad bars to its public schools (there’s New Haven, and New Orleans), but it has the rare distinction of once being known as Porkopolis, from the time – the early-to-mid 19th century – when herds of hogs roamed its streets, and it was the biggest pork-packing center in the country.Read the full story here.

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Cincinnati isn’t the only town in the country that’s bringing salad bars to its public schools (there’s New Haven, and New Orleans), but it has the rare distinction of once being known as Porkopolis, from the time – the early-to-mid 19th century – when herds of hogs roamed its streets, and it was the biggest pork-packing center in the country.

Read the full story here.

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