If someone dared you to eat cooked hog intestines, would you accept the challenge? Well, chitlins (or chitterlings) are just that: the intestines of a pig that are boiled or fried in spices and ...

This was the rare holiday season in which I didn’t have a bowl of home-cooked chitterlings, which are pigs’ intestines — “chitlins” to the initiated. I typically enjoy them twice a year, among ...

Chitlins (short for chitterlings) and tripas are both types of intestine-based dishes. However, they have different cultural origins, different cooking and preparation methods, and, in some instances, ...