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Azerbaijan: Pork in a Christian village

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Ethnicity & Race, Food, Religion, Travel

27 Months in Azerbaijan pays a visit to the Christian village of Nic in Azerbaijan to partake in eating the best pork available in the largely Moslem country [1]. Meanwhile, Post-Soviet Euphoria or Sins against Democracy? notes that the prohibition on eating pork exists in both the Bible and the Koran [2].