: the strip of fat from the back of a hog carcass usually cured by drying and salting
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Remove the fatback, increase the oven temperature to 375 degrees, and continue roasting for 1 hour to brown the breast.
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The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2023
In school, the other children and teachers ridiculed him—for his accent, his coveralls, his lunches of fatback and collard greens.
—Francesca Mari, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
The dumplings are a Chinese-Korean hybrid, says Lee, steamed to preserve the delicate wrapper and stuffed with ground pork, buttered kimchi and emulsified fatback.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
Those who use Rick Bragg’s latest meander into Southern life as a cookbook will need to gird their culinary loins — and not be a scared of liberal doses of Crisco, fatback drippings, lard, bacon grease, cracklin’ meat and such.
—David Holahan, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2018
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The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2023
In school, the other children and teachers ridiculed him—for his accent, his coveralls, his lunches of fatback and collard greens.
—Francesca Mari, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
The dumplings are a Chinese-Korean hybrid, says Lee, steamed to preserve the delicate wrapper and stuffed with ground pork, buttered kimchi and emulsified fatback.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
Those who use Rick Bragg’s latest meander into Southern life as a cookbook will need to gird their culinary loins — and not be a scared of liberal doses of Crisco, fatback drippings, lard, bacon grease, cracklin’ meat and such.
—David Holahan, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2018
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fatback
noun
fat·back
ˈfat-ˌbak 
: the strip of fat from the back of a hog carcass
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