РусскийHOMEMADE HAM WITH ORANGE TASTE
Though it may seem strange but that slight orange taste is perfectly combined with pork. It’s easy to cook at home an authentic, tender ham, almost without preservatives, nice-looking and...
HOT SMOKED PORK SHOULDER
There are a dozen of various muscles in the pork shoulder. Each one is characterized by its proper taste, structure and color. You know, the pork front legs are perfect...
HOMEMADE SMOKED BACON
It’s not too hard to cook bacon according to a classic recipe. What you can be sure of is that it comes out much more juicy, tender, flavorful and delicious,...
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...
Chistorra – sausage from Navarra
Chistorra – sausage originally coming from Navarra and the Basque Country. There are plenty of options how to cook chistorra and we can spend days listing them. Chistorra is a...
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?...
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 spices. Two boston butts (without...
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,...
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 diminished enough to allow people...
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...
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 create a crisis for my...
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