Quote from one of my favorite cookbooks--and not because it's a Chinese legend

The Origins of Roast Pork:

According to an ancient Chinese folk tale, Bo-Bo, a clumsy adolescent peasant boy, discovered the joys of roast pork when he accidentally burned down his father's pigsty. As Charles Lamb relates in his Dissertation Upon Roast Pig, "Imitators were soon building and burning down pigsties at a terrifying rate."

Darkly hilarious.