The basic ingredients of Portuguese feijoada are beans and fresh pork or beef meat.

Did a ship's captain insist upon fresh pork at sea?

The basic ingredients of feijoada are beans with fresh pork or beef.

When buying fresh pork, look for cuts that are firm and have a grayish pink color with relatively little fat.

And her hands were crusted with salt, pink with fluid from the fresh pork.

Many of the other items, like fresh or frozen pork and beef products used by food processors, are not sold directly to consumers.

It's wonderful, however, with fresh pork (or duck or chicken).

I have some sausages; and there is fresh pork.

Supper had been fresh pork and greens with marrows from the kitchen garden cooked in eggs.

What to look for: Choose fresh pork that has a pale pink color.