Jazz Fe(a)st: Someone Get Me a Wheelchair Then you look down and there, cupped like magic beans in your hands, is a pepper sauce-dressed pile of pulled pork from a wood-roasted suckling pig. It’s your bachelor party at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, aka Jazz Fe(a)st. Read more More
Bury Me in a Bowl of Pig Foot Jambalaya Sam’s Good Meats challenges anyone turned off by the title of this piece to say they wouldn’t try the dish made at the end of it. Except vegetarians. They can ping @SamsGoodMeats on Twitter with complaints. Read more More
A Jew Celebrates Vietnamese St. Patrick’s Day The sandwich you’ll see here is the “Pho” Corned Beef Banh Mi w/ Ruhlman’s Pate de Campagne, David Chang’s Momofuku Quick Pickles, Cilantro, and Yogurt-Agave-Sriracha sauce. Just look at how good this tastes. Now make your own. Read more More
Sausage That Won’t Kill You Only Makes You Stronger Only someone completely out of their mind with sausage dementia would write something that dramatic about throwing home cured spanish chorizo away. But what can I say? Pimenton de la vera (smoked paprika), garlic, spices, and pork shoulder make up the highest form of charcuterie for me. There may not be a food in the world I like more. Read more More
Pancetta, Meet Smokey Pork Ribs They walk into a house in the middle of Washington, DC, and the nutjob who owns it has pork everywhere. The freezer full of vac sealed sausage. The wine fridge with struggling chorizo. The pancetta in the rafters. The hams hanging in the shed. And the pork ribs. Read more More
Ruminations, Reminiscenses, Ribs I fackin love pork ribs. I grew up in Kansas City, where barbecue is a spiritual movement whose manna is ribs (burnt ends, maybe, but not for this post). Read more More
Besides Warthog Anus, The World’s Most Offensive Food My first Charcutepalooza post was about how my culinary curiosity brought me to butchery and this blog. This post is about how that same desire for food adventure led me to taste the most offensive piece of food I have ever had near my mouth. Read more More