Blackcurrant Coppa
“What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.” Ludwig Wittgenstein One...
Return Sausage
After skipping dry-curing meats for a year, I’m back with “Return” sausage. Nothing exceptional here. Minimum spices, regular proportions. Yet, there is something new. For years, I was besieged by...
Revolutionary Sausage
Once comrade Stalin – may he rot in Hell – was grilling his son Vasilij for some drunken “disorderly conduct.” – Do you think you’re Stalin? No!….Do you think I’m Stalin?...
Coppardo
Dry-cured mangaitsa neck with the fat cap: the definition of sublime. Under the wise advisement of the most honorable charcuterie colleagues, it has been decided...
Deer in Burgundy
Our tastes have changed. In the testimony to the arbitrary nature of our dining inclinations, take Jerome Loppomano’s observations: “Pork is the habitual food of poor people, those who are...
Kupel’ski Hand-Cut Sausages
We, Ukrainians, have a complicated history with our Polish brethren. When Polish arrogance meets Ukrainian hot-headed craziness, the results are unpredictable. On one side, now there is no closer ally...
Olesya’s Candies
That’s, my friends, how candies look like in the household where someone is obsessed with the “salumiere stuff.” The sausages are made with my daughter’s favorite...
Колбаса Сырокопченая Майкопская Высшего СортаMaykopskaya Dry-Cured, Cold-Smoked Sausage, High Grade
“Soviet” sausage is a tricky subject. As I re-create some of them, there is a number of points worth noting. First, despite the strict directions, the procedures – especially when...
Mangalitsa Ham, Aged 2.5 Years
What are we without pigs? Not even properly humans… Take the pork away, and the sun loses its brightness and wine its sweetness. People whom we call — for the...
A Fiat to Create
John Stuart Mill argued that dominance of a social consensus is the most profound kind of tyranny. Consequently, liberty is achieved when such power is...
Giuseppe Galliano’s Coppa
There is a “Colonel” stereotype in our cultures. He – historically, at least – is disciplined, righteousness, a man of the letters; personification of honor and courage in the face...
The One that Got Lost
On January 25th, I’ve started three coppas. When the time came to clear the “Curing Chamber” on June 16th, I’ve found few items there whose proper identification was problematic. Yet,...
Gold Reserve: Charcuterie’s Version
Since my “Curing Chamber” is going to take a well-deserved rest during the Oklahoma summer, I had to ensure that the lean months would not...
The Mystical Coppa
Each week, the walls of every Vishnu temple on our planet hear the recital of the Taittriya Upanishad: Oh, Wonderful! Oh, Wonderful! Oh, Wonderful! I’m food! I’m food, I’m food!...
Coppa “Pig’s Triumph”
In our preconceived ideas on the subject of fairness, the difficult and prolonged journey should always be crowned by a triumphant ending. It doesn’t always happen that way. Luckily, the...
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