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.

A Vegan Star is Born

The photo at left shows the handiwork of an alleged vegan activist who apparently does not like the fact that foie gras and veal are served at the restaurant Jezebel in Austin, Texas.If you click it or the terrine below you can see other examples of the art that someone who calls himself Veganstar left [...]

Restaurants Test Table Card Readers – TIME

It’s what you don’t know that allows you to sleep at night. According to this article in Time, something like 70 percent of all credit card skimming occurs in restaurants when the server takes your card away from the table and you can’t see wtf he’s doing. Turns out what some of these dirt bags [...]

Fishy Fish Tale

I love stories like this if for no other reason than for the story it suggests of it’s origin and the intent of the writer. It seems that somebody in Taiwan is upset that “a chef” is serving fish that is not dead and not alive. I put the phrase “a chef” in [...]

Bizzare but True: Rachel Ray is a Kitchen Sage

This is priceless.
Philadelphia Inquirer restaurant critic Craig La Ban wrote a review of Chops a steakhousein suburban Bala Cynwyd and now they are suing him for libel. The lawsuit contends that La Ban wrote false information when he wrote

A recent meal, though, was expensive and disappointing, from the soggy and sour chopped salad to [...]

Québécois (e) Believe it’s Not Butter

This is a couple of years old but until Natalie Sztern who is a regular commentator over at Ruhlman.com told me about it, I was as clueless as a monk in a brothel
Canada’s two-margarine policy is just fine with the Supreme Court of Canada. On March 17, 2005, Canada’s highest court ruled [...]