Archive for the ‘offal watch’ Category
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Last night, in telling my mother and sister about some of the better things I've eaten recently, the looks of horror on their faces, while not entirely unexpected, were a bit stronger than anticipated as I spoke of offal like tongue, and testicles, and cheek.
My sister did not understand why ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Last night the episode of Modern Marvels was titled "The Pig."
Although I braced myself for a biased portrayal of the pork industry as it shifted from the lard type breeds of old to the lean "white" meat of the 80's and 90's; and they were a bit generous with their ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
We had a great meal at An American Place last night, and although I will comment on it further when I have recovered, I wanted to make three quick comments.
Duck Testicles are really not a big deal. They have the texture of a soft sausage with its casing removed, ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Unable to be a ringer on your Convivial Pursuit team, I and a few others are heading over to Mike's house Saturday to act as guinnea pigs for a test run of the questions.
Kimberly Henricks -- Slow Food Member, blogger, and I think friend of Cupcake Grand Champion Stef has ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Of course in the case of Ellie and I we'll call it sleet; and in place of couriers we'll call ourselves diners; and instead of appointed rounds there was ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
So, um, yeah, I had no idea the forum would take off like that.
In basically three weeks 47 people have posted 835 articles, and while a nice chunk are from only four of us (and you know who you are), we have everything from magazine editors, to a wine rep, ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
In my continuing quest, offal was spotted at Niche last night.
On menu they have pork cheeks pan fried with what I would describe as a peach puree. I forget the exact description, but they'd taken the cheek, made a patty out of it, breaded it and pan fried ...
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