Recently I've been writing an assignment which is basically to review a cookbook. After going through many, many choices which are still scattered around my bedroom I decided on The Whole Beast by Fergus Henderson. I love this book, and I love the way of eating that it promotes. Eating the entire animal, especially all the funny bits and offal.
I will post the cookbook review here, after its been edited by my instructor. But my thought is, and I would love to get some of your opinions, that I will try and replicate what has already been done by the famous Julie and Julia blog and cook everything in the book. The techniques in the book range from advanced to fairly simple, and I think the true challenge is going to be getting my hands on all of the special bits of animal that are needed to make these recipes. I will document my adventure here, and post pictures of my creations, for better or worse.
I would love to hear any and all of your thoughts about this project, so please feel free.
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Mike
4/29/2009 01:55:34 am
I've never been a huge fan of organ meats, but I'll be very interested to see how this turns out. Have you considered just buying a whole animal yourself? It might be the easiest way to get all the bits. Might be easier if you had a partner in crime though.
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Sydney
4/29/2009 02:03:16 am
That's a great idea, and I actually talked about doing something like that with some culinary school friends. But it never materialized.
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Sydney
5/1/2009 03:18:25 am
Next time I'm in in Nova Scotia we can absolutely cook a pig's head. I've got a great family recipe for Head Cheese, but I'd like to try Thomas Keller's recipe for braised pigs head as well.
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Sydney
5/1/2009 11:02:31 am
Is that legal in Nova Scotia yet?
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