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...
“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 can interpret the sum of...
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...
This originally Jewish product is made from veal breast and is especially popular in the US and Canada. And as its usual for the inhabitants of those — it would be just stuck to moldy...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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