FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
BABIROUSSA
Excerpted from Montagne, Prosper. 1961. Larousee Gastronomique. The Encyclopedia of Food, Wine & Cookery. Crown Publishers, Inc., New York.
is a mammal, allied to the wild board, differs from the latter by the number and curious development of the canines.
Its general appearance and its squat shape give it a certain similarity to the rhinoceros. Like the latter, it lives in the swampy forests of the Malay Archipelago. It is fairly easily tamed. Its flesh, which is prepared in the same way as the wild boar.
