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...
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...
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...
“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...
“Everything is fruit to me which thy season brings, Oh Nature.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations This sausage was created on the eve of my transition into...
Having killed the Iberian pig and having processed its meat, I’ve cooked lots of different products. One of them was a simple thin sausage. The recipe and cooking process was...
If a manual contains a title a la “Croatian Salami”, especially followed by “Malorussian\Little-Russian Sausage” ( if you use the title, make sure there are no Ukrainians around — you...
For the sake of Diversity — the goddess of our age — made some Bollo Preñao by the general guidelines of Jeffrey Weiss’ “Charcuteria” book. It shall remain a mystery...
Designation of this product as “In the likeness of ‘Nduja” instead of simply ‘Nduja owns to the requirements of the Denominazione di Origine Controllata. Yet, legal niceties aside, what is...
Etymology is a curious thing. The way the meaning of the words change reflects on the countless milestones of the history our nations and civilizations....
While creating this salami, I was contemplating on the life and theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher, the father of the liberal theology. Here and now, I stipulate that his understanding of...
Annual slaughter of a pig was a special occasion of my Ukrainian childhood. I felt pretty sorry for the creature, but also excitement of the event. There was a ritual...
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