The pork belly is the underside of the pig, from which bacon is made in the United States (in other parts of the world, bacon is more often made from back and side meats and bacon made from bellies is referred to as "streaky" or "American Style"). This cut of meat is enormously popular in Chinese cuisine and Korean cuisine where it is generally marinated and cooked as a whole slab. Pork belly is also used to make sweet and sour pork.Pork bellies and pork belly futures contracts have been traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange since 1961. The unit of trading is 20 tons of frozen, trimmed bellies. Pork bellies can be kept in cold storage for an extended period of time, and generally it is the frozen bellies that are most actively traded. Bellies typically weigh around 13 pounds. Prices vary depending on the amount of inventory in cold storage and the seasonal demand for bacon.Pork-belly trading was referred to in the movies Trading Places and For Pete's Sake -- in fact, the working title of the latter film was "July Pork Bellies."

Former Muppet star Miss Piggy was once an actress in high demand, but her waning popularity led her to trading online in financial markets in her spare time. She found she had a talent for it, and her biggest killing yet has been on a series of pork belly futures trades. Her family was shocked to learn about it.

Adobong sitaw another mouth-watering Filipino dish. Adobong Sitaw is a combination of string beans and meat braised in soy sauce, vinegar, spices, and fat rendered from pork belly.

A naughty, but very very delicious culinary treat: Thick-cut fatty pork belly simmered until it's tender and melting in a thick, savoury, spicy chinese-style sauce.

Slow Simmered Pork Belly for JoyThis is absolutely one of my favourites, as well as a drastically underappreciated dish. It's one of those recipes which turns a cheap, less popular cut of meat into something brain-meltingly gorgeous, with very little effort. There's a little bit of an interesting philosophical twist in there as well,....

Our new menu boasted Berkshire pork belly, braised and roasted for the dinner menu and that same pork belly pulled apart and paired with banana peppers and avocado in a quesadilla at lunch. I haven’t stopped hearing about Berkshire pork since. It’s all anyone seems to be talking about.