To user:Melonbarmonster2: In the "Meat" sectin of Pettit, like I said above, dog meat comes 4th after beef, pork, chicken (the author claims their popularity has been in this order in Korea.), which shows the importance of dog meat. (Wild animals are mentioned after dog meat).
Petitt mentions dog in 15 times and contains a detailed dog meat stew recipe. I don't know what kind of "peripheral food item" is worthy of this much attention. Now that you finally got a hold of the book, can you shows us an example of a "peripheral food item" comparable to dog meat in terms of emphasis in the book?
Petitt is only one of many reliable sources. I plan to summarized and present sources on dog meat here as soon as I am done with working other article.