Cajun cracklings (or cracklins) from Cajun cuisine (called gratons in Louisiana French), are fried pieces of pork fat with a small amount of attached skin, flavored after frying with a mixture of peppery Cajun spices.ork rinds, sometimes cracklings, is the American name for fried or roasted skins of pigs, geese or other animals, regardless of the status or amount of pork in the snack. Pieces of fried meat, skin, or membrane produced as a byproduct of rendering lard are also called cracklings.
Pharma Bad Boy Martin Shkreli Is a Big Democrat Donor. Pharma Bad-Boy Martin Shkreli Is A Big Dem Donor. Martin Shkreli, the disgraced pharmaceutical executive who pleaded the Fifth and then smirked and fidgeted his way through a congressional hearing yesterday, is a big Democrat donor.
As a kid, Shkreli played chess with an older man named Marty who lived in his building and taught him about biotech stocks, according to an interview with CNNMoney in March. Shkreli bought shares of Compaq when he was 12 and Amazon when he was 15. 2000. -- When he was 16, Shkreli dropped out of the prestigious Hunter high school in New York. -- He interned for Cramer, Berkowitz & Co., founded by CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer (Cramer had left his namesake hedge fund by then).