“From Duluth to Birmingham/ He’s the pork chop Dapper Dan/ He’s the keenest ham what am/ Cincinnati dancing pig.” — “Cincinnati Dancing Pig” by Al Lewis and Guy Wood More than a century before Vic ...

Fourth-generation Joy of Cooking coauthor John Becker didn’t actually grow up in Cincinnati—but his grandmother, Marion Rombauer Becker, and his father, Ethan Becker, past authors of the cookbook, did ...

As far as the meat goes, pork is traditional, of course, though you can make it with just about anything, including sausage or beef. Word on the street is that, out Cincy-way, there is more than one ...