Porkcamp, Neuruppin-Lichtenberg, Germany
If you really want to get close to the source of your food, then head, as I did
to the small town of Neuruppin-Lichtenberg, some 60 miles north of Berlin. Every year, a gaggle of disparate Germans gather to kill, cook and eat many, many pigs. The weekend begins with an early morning viewing of the slaughter and butchering of the hogs and ends with a multicourse meal celebrating all matters porcine. This being Germany, there is plenty of beer, too.