Category Archive for 'trotter'

Eating Nose to Tail in London & A Podcast

Posted in British, England, Fergus Henderson, Food Commentary, Gabrielle Hamilton, London, Prune, Restaurant Review, animals, dining, duck, eating, family, food, holiday, lunch, mutton, parsley, pigs, podcast, restaurant, tourism, travel, trotter on Dec 3rd, 2008

Listen to the podcast “Eating Nose to Tail in London” now.
Since Amy and I have been together I think we’ve only spent two Thanksgivings in America - not because we don’t enjoy turkey, but because it is often the cheapest time of the year to leave the country as many expat Americans are returning home. […]

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Au Pied de Cochon: Intimidation, Defeat and Probable Bypass Surgery

Posted in Canada, Food Commentary, French, Montreal, Restaurant Review, butter, cornichons, cream, death, dining, eating, embarrassment, food, 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 […]

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