A Taste of Tradition tells the story of the Samworth family business as it progressed from its origins as a one-man Birmingham pig-dealing firm to today's group of nine interlocking companies, composing one of the leading private UK businesses in the meat products industry employing some 2,300 people. This is an account of modern entrepreneurial initiative and of the rapid and radical changes that have overtaken the meat-products industry during the last fifty years.