Another tempest in a teapot

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The best sauce in the world is hunger.

The Real: Rendered Veal Fat

Last week we sent two Ayrshire/Limousin crossbred bull calves out to the USDA slaughterhouse. Each was a little over two months old and had been raised on milk. The calves got to follow their mothers around the farm, learn to be cows and enjoy their, albeit brief, lives.
I’ll post more detailed photos showing how [...]

[Hunger Art]Total Utilization of a Duck

by Mike Pardus
In keeping with our inter-blog discussion on consomme and total utility of food products, I offer this video series in 3 parts (again, YouTube limitations).
The action moves pretty quickly and assumes that you already know how to “break down” a bird. If there’s interest, I’ll shoot a “Poultry Butchering 101″ video later this [...]

Bad News for Aspiring Moral Eaters

Eating is not easy for those who want to eat in a manner that leaves a soft footprint, and for some who choose to eat Kosher meat, things just got tougher.
Officials from the state’s Labor Commissioner’s Office… uncovered 57 cases of child labor law violations at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, where [...]

The Other Grey Meat

In a Guardian article titled The ultimate ethical meal Caroline Davies reports that some folks in Great Britain are eating themselves stupid on gray squirrel which, she says, tastes like a cross between duck and lamb (Too bad they don’t look like crosses between ducks and sheep. Now that’d be amusing.) Having eaten gray squirrel [...]

Woman Can Keep Frozen Cats

Whew! Just when I was beginning to think that I’d have to start worrying about the government telling me what I’m allowed to keep in my freezer, the court steps in with some common sense.
Woman Can Keep Frozen Cats
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

National Socialist Soup Sop

The National Socialist Party of Germany threw sops to the German people in the form of cheap public housing and “Strength through Joy”cruises and a range of other hand-outs (often funded by looting and grave robbing, of course). The Cuban government doles out free medical care and, in addition to cheap heating oil and [...]

Another September 18th

I may be running the risk of being charged with outright plagiarism by posting this newsletter from The Old Foodie, but this one was so affecting that I had to put it up. I’ll take my lumps if they come. Bob dG
Today, September 18th …
On this day in 1942, the Reich Minister [...]

Would you like some fresh Kashrut on your salad?

Longtime readers of my blog will probably not be surprised to hear me say that I don’t take a very serious approach to ethical questions relating to cooking and eating at A Hunger Artist. It’s not that I do not believe there are serious questions to be addressed or ponder them with a serious mien [...]

Odering! 10 Million Dollars, Hold the cheese

So a guy orders two quarter-pounders from a McDonald’s in Star City, Va and tells them to hold the cheese because he is allergic to cheese. They don’t hold the cheese, he takes a bite and goes into anaphylactic shock, survives and sues for 10 million dollars.
I’m of two minds on this sort of [...]