Home becomes a chophouse when pork is bathed in brine

By Betty Shimabukuro

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 10, 2012

~~<p>Something to chew on: In an average month this year, recipe hunters launched 9.2 million online searches for pork chop dishes. This places pork chops in the No. 1 position on the list of most-searched-for recipes in 2012. The all-about-food website The Daily Meal figured this out, based on an analysis of various search engines. (Rounding out the top five: meatballs, chocolate cake, chocolate chip cookies and bread.)</p>
<p>I approve of this interest in pork chops, an easy and often economical raw material for a meal — not as boring as a chicken breast or as mundane as a meatloaf.</p>
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Something to chew on: In an average month this year, recipe hunters launched 9.2 million online searches for pork chop dishes. This places pork chops in the No. 1 position on the list of most-searched-for recipes in 2012. The all-about-food website The Daily Meal figured this out, based on an analysis of various search engines. (Rounding out the top five: meatballs, chocolate cake, chocolate chip cookies and bread.)

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