That is so Offal
Apr 14, 2008 chefs, general food
In this video Chris Cosentino chats about offal and mentions a cookbook he’s been working on for four or five years stating that “nobody has the balls to put it out.”
(a) funny choice of words considering the topic
(b) book publishers are in the business of making money and a book about offal cookery for the American market is still–sorry to say–way ahead of it’s time.
(c) How much of what Cosentino does is to shock people? He seems to relish in freaking people out more and more, and while he’s doing a killer job raising awareness about where meat comes from, and I’m still eager to eat in his restaurant if I find myself in San Francisco, he’s starting to come off a bit condescending towards people that just don’t want to eat the nasty bits.
And how about this shot from Gourmet Magazine about a month back?
Apparently they have gotten a healthy dose of hate mail for this picture and have thrown up a poll on gourmet.com to get a consensus on how people feel about. I would link you to the poll except for the fact that I can no longer find it but, it pretty much boiled down to something along the lines of: “provocative or gross?”
While I don’t think it’s particularly gross it does strike me as being disrespectful in some way because the pig did die so that someone could consume it. It could have been used for something like the porchetta di testa Josh Galliano posted about a while back instead of just going into the dumpster.
I wonder if Saw got any royalty checks for this?
Tags: Chris Cosentino, gourmet magazine, Joshua Galliano, offal
