Musings on Starters, Mains, Desserts and Second-Helpings…
Posted in France, French, Garlic, Meat, chicken, fried, herbs, offal, poultry, shallots, thyme, tradition, travel on Feb 20th, 2010
Do you ever wish you had a secret power? I don’t mean like some stupid superhero who can fly, make it rain, or look great in a unitard. I mean like a gerbil’s ability to store tasty bits in its cheeks for later, or a tiger’s ability to eat 30lbs of wild boar at a [...]
Posted in Argentina, Chorizo, Meat, Recipe, culture, empanadas, history, offal, sauce, sausage, spices, stew, travel, tripe on Nov 20th, 2009
La Cupertina, at the corner of Cabrera and Godoy Cruz in the charming Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo Viejo, is reputed to have the best traditional Tucuman empanadas in the city. And, certainly, they are rather good. So tasty, in fact, that we bought a dozen for carry-out the day we left Argentina and nursed [...]
Posted in Garlic, Italian, Italy, Meat, Recipe, butter, cream, herbs, liver, offal, sage, shallots, tourism, travel, veal on Jul 14th, 2009
“Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene”
- William Shakespeare, Prologue to Romeo and Juliet
On our honeymoon, almost exactly two years ago today, we arrived in the fair city of Verona thoroughly pissed off. And then things got worse. It wasn’t as if the day had started badly either: waking [...]
Posted in Meat, Mexican, Recipe, Uruguay, avocado, cilantro, delicacy, grilled, lime, offal, sweetbreads, tacos, tortilla, tripe on Jun 16th, 2009
There are few things that, when slapped between tortillas and christened with spicy condiments, fail to get me excited. Making it a shame that the vast majority of Mexican restaurants near us have such a limited spectrum of taco fillings. Not that I don’t enjoy carnitas, carne asada, fish or chicken tacos, I very definitely [...]
Posted in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, South America, Uruguay, beef, crispy, culture, grilled, grilling, guts, indulgent meal, lemon, morcilla, offal, pork, sausage, sweetbreads, tourism, travel, veal on Jun 2nd, 2009
As Odysseus was nearly drawn to his destruction on the rocks by the enchanting song of the sirens, so your hardy WANF voyagers were almost powerless to resist breaking themselves on the plentiful tables of Uruguay. However, unlike Homer’s hero, for whom women were the main weakness throughout his epic peregrinations, during our recent travels [...]
Posted in America, Italian, Italian-American, Meat, New Jersey, Pasta, Philadelphia, Recipe, Recipes, chops, gravy, offal, pigs, sauce, sausage, slow cooking, trotter, unhealthy on Jan 19th, 2009
They (we) call it a Sunday Gravy because it really suits a Sunday best. The long simmering, the wine drinking, the letting-it-sit-on-the-stove-till-the-family-arrives kind of gravy. Thanks to the Sopranos, people all over the world have heard of Sunday Gravy. Some scratch their heads in wonder as to why some call it sauce and others call [...]
Posted in Canada, Food Commentary, French, Montreal, Restaurant Review, butter, cornichons, cream, death, dining, eating, embarrassment, fried, fritters, indulgent meal, mushrooms, offal, spinach, tongue, tourism, travel, trotter, unhealthy, vinaigrette on Oct 21st, 2008
Gentle readers, please sympathize with me, for I, like a man who’s been dining exclusively on centipedes, have the bitter taste of defeat in my mouth. That this humiliation and defeat arrived, to twist a metaphor, at the hands of nothing more sinister than a pig’s foot, has only served to exacerbate these feelings of embarrassment and self-loathing.
Those of you [...]
Posted in America, Cajun, Canada, Food Commentary, French, Louisiana, Recipe, Recipes, alligator, blood, boudin, braised, corn, eating, grilled, hominy, lentils, offal, pigs, sausage, shrimp, tradition, unhealthy on Aug 28th, 2008
A few months ago I was contacted by a representative of a site called cajungrocer.com. He offered to send us some Cajun treats if we would do a bit of a write-up on their products. Well, what else could I say but “Hell YEAH!”. We had our choice to sample crayfish, turducken or boudin. It [...]
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