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Food Thread: Butter, And Sal Monella -- The Unwanted Dinner Guest![]() You have to give the Frogs credit; they know what is important in their world! And butter ranks very high in their culinary pantheon. Any halfway decent store has several different kinds of butter, and if you go to one of the great department store food courts, their refrigerated display cases are 15-20 feet (five or six meters in effeminate measure world) wide! And it's not just high quality stuff...it is also a very interesting variety of flavors. Yes, it is subtle, but after six months? I have clear favorites, although I have yet to find one that was displeasing. There is Beurre d'Isigny and Lescure (Charentes-Poitou) and Échiré and Beurre de Bresse and Beurre Charentes-Poitou and Président and Paysan Breton and probably a bunch I missed. Grassy or floral or nutty or sweet or a combination. But they all taste like...um...butter! They also have weird flavored butters like Yuzu and Seaweed! They aren't my cup of tea, although I tried a wine-flavored butter at a restaurant last month that was great! They also salt their butters, and as usual, they go overboard, with all sorts of different salt textures and colors. Salted butter is delicious, but I think subtle should be the operative word. They even have bulk butter for cooking, which is a fine idea, because those fancy butters aren't cheap. Obviously most of the subtleties are lost when cooked...but even the bulk stuff is high quality...in line with good American butter. So, is it worth it? Yes! Great butter elevates everything it touches, especially those great baguettes that have nothing to do with my expanding waistline! Maybe I am being naive, but I figured that everyone just assumes that eggs have Salmonella contamination, and to treat them accordingly (just like how I assume that all poultry has Salmonella). Am I missing something? Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Eggs sounds like "pregnancy linked to intercourse," or "wet streets linked to rain showers." Food safety is not a complicated thing. Keep everything clean. Don't cross-contaminate. Don't cook like you are a four-year-old splashing through mud puddles. Keep hot things hot and cold things cold. And realize that some stuff (like poultry and eggs) is so often contaminated that the smart choice is to assume 100% contamination! ![]() My preference for Boston Butt is to smoke it, or make one of those wonderful slow-roasted Cuban or Mexican or Puerto Rican dishes. But a nice thick slice of that leg might be just the ticket! Up Your Backyard Barbecue Game with Southern-Style Pork Steaks One concern for me is how to keep those steaks from drying out. 170 degrees is dancing on that thin line between moist and chalky. If I try this (and I will), I'll pull them when they are less well-done. Chopped Chicken Livers! Ah...I remember it fondly from my grandmother's kitchen. She made the best version ever...rivaled only by every other Jewish grandmother's version. It's rustic. It's a peasant dish, made from inexpensive stuff with big and bold flavors. The Frogs make it too, although they often use fabulously expensive goose or duck livers that they fatten in specialized operations. A small tin of those livers is shockingly expensive, and is considered a luxury item. They will eat the liver sliced, or sometimes make a mousse or other preparation. But last night I had an elevated version of my grandmother's dish, and it was great! And because they used the lowly and inexpensive chicken liver instead of the ridiculously expensive fattened duck or goose liver, it was just another dish on the menu. Delicious! I think they use a lot of cream and butter to replace the missing fat, but really, when was the last time you ate something with cream and butter and thought, "Gee, I wish they hadn't used so much!" This guy is one of J.J. Sefton's favorite chefs, and he even watches his cooking show (Sefton doesn't strike me as a TV sort of fellow). And Jack Stein's cod with chard and charred sweetcorn recipe sounds promising. I love charred corn, and I'll even tolerate chard! But... those cooking directions are ass-backward! I don't know about you, but I don't like cold food. My guess is that the recipe was edited by a well-meaning but cooking illiterate intern, and nobody caught it. Or maybe Rick Stein just likes cold fish! Culinary Map Of Europe According To Italy [Hat Tip: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper] ![]() I thought France would have good garlic, but the Frogs seem to have the same problem we have in the U.S. At least they don't import filthy garlic from China. Pork is great here, but no game, so send all of your extra antelope to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
$1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle. The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it! | Recent Comments
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