Iowan says he's high on the hog with new breed

An Iowa farmer who says he can build a motorcycle, throw someone out of a bar, wrestle a pig and program a computer, "believes he has bred the best tasting pork ever," John Eligon of The New York Times reports from Ionia, Iowa. (Photo by Sean Patrick Farrell)

Carl Edgar Blake II's new breed, the Iowa Swabian Hall, are "not universally admired," Eligon writes, but won a heritage pork contest in San Francisco and gets good reviews from the executive chef at Gramercy Tavern In New York. Monday he was on the Travel Channel's "Bizarre Foods," and "Blake said he has been inundated with calls from people across the country wanting pigs and bacon." (Read more)