BlogHer - Nose-to-Tail Eating: Will It Stick to Your Ribs, or is It Just Another Offal Trend? - Comments

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Ryan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:24:48 -0500

I'm blogging about working my way through the entire cookbook here:

http://www.nosetotailathome.com

I've even finished off three of the four lamb brain's recipes. Now, to try and find a woodcock...

sadly

kazari — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:01:28 -0500

my kitchen guinea pigs (my husband and various assorted friends) are not fans of 'variety meats'.

If drooled over some of Maya Angelou's recipes in 'Hallelujah, the welcome table', but unless i'm willing to eat a whole plate of liver by myself, those books are gonna stay on the shelf.

i just have to wait for my dad to visit. he's a big fan of brains, sweet breads and steak and kidney pie.

Same Here - Love Chicken Feet As A Kid

Gena Haskett — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:03:18 -0500

I see them in supermarkets now and I can't eat them for love or money.

It was the word "Trotters" that goofed me up, I never saw a jaw of Trotters, only picked pig feet.

Gena - Out On The Stoop

Chicken Feet

calya — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:53:27 -0500

When I was a child I would eat chicken feet like they were candy when we went out for dim sum. When I was a teenager I figured out what they were and couldn't bear to eat them anymore. I can't believe I didn't think that they were chicken feet! They really look like feet!

Calya

www.cookiediaries.blogspot.com

Grew up on pigs feet

Kim Pearson — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:34:48 -0500

Best cooked with vinegar. Chitlins, too. Only trusted my stepmother's -- took hours to clean them, and Gena's right, they stunk up the house.Nowadays I substitute smoked turkey butts for ham hocks, but nothing goes better in a pot of greens, black-eyed peas or succotash. Don't think I could do brains, though. Heads generally, especially when they are served with the eyes on. My food should not look back at me, that's all I'm saying.

Kim
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the whole thing's in offal taste, really

HannahVB — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:56:57 -0500

We sold a couple of 'boutique' offal cook books in the shop my husband and I ran here in Bath for a couple of years, and much as I consider myself brave and a gourmand, I did decide in the end just NOT to contend with any of them, exotic as they were. I'll have to remember what this great other one was and post a link... I think it was by an Italian lady. Then there was the one from Absolute Press, which was based in Bath... Hmmm. I know I had lovely sweetbreads en croute once at a fancy dinner, but I don't think I'd go out of my wayt to get at them at home, and I've been tempted by the idea of someday doing an authentic barbacoa - with roast pork cheek shredded off the head - but I hold few illusions as to how likely that is. Anyway - respect is due to those with the, er, prairie oysters to tackle this stuff.

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In this context, the author

Super Jive — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:16:07 -0500

In this context, the author meant the actual feet!

Trotters? Do You Mean Chittlings?

Gena Haskett — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:03:43 -0500

AKA pig or cow intestines? It is probably dying out and no one under 30 knows how to make them. Boiled for hours and then deep fried in butter, garlic and onions with mass quantities of hot sauce near the plate.

Now you really had to trust the person cleaning and cooking those rascals or you'd wind up in the Emergency Room.

The air quality did suffer but that is good eating for those that can partake. I can't touch the stuff, I love it but it doesn't love me back anymore. Pig tails, pig knuckles and I'm kinda sure we would have ate the oink too.

Gena - Out On The Stoop

Offal trend!

Satchel Pooch — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:22:41 -0500

Best pun of the day!

Kalyn, thanks for the link!

Super Jive — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:59:06 -0500

Kalyn, thanks for the link! No matter how much I look, I love that someone always has more links for me after I post! Awesome.

And now that I have the full scoop on Pig Day! I am there from now on. Even if there is just my house.

Pig Day! (where Denise goes off topic, sorry!)

Denise — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:15:29 -0500

OK before I go off on my tangent, I have to say I laughed hard and loud over your intro paragraph. You are awesome and I bow to your gastronomic bravery. A security tag. Brilliant.

Now, about Pig Day! I love Pig Day! I threw a Pig Day! party back on Women.com in like 1999 and it was HUGE. I didn't so much encourage folks to eat their way through a pig, but we had fun with pig recipes, pig drawing, pig poetry, pig movies and everything pig.

I tried the party again the next year at iVillage and it was also fun but not as much fun. And every March 1 since I've celebrated it in some way, even if it was just a mention in a morning message board post to friends - except this year, Pig Day! got away from me. sniff. I remembered a few days before Pig Day! but on the day itself, forgot. Completely. When I remembered a week late, it was like someone probably feels when they forget their best friend's birthday or something.

Anyway - ummm thanks for mentioning Pig Day! and making me laugh. But I am not going to do any deep end eating. Shudder. I might be coaxed into trying a security tag, just for fun though.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Deep End Dining

Kalyn Denny — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:42:28 -0500

There's a food blog called Deep End Dining which specializes in unusual foods, including animal parts of every kinds, insects, and other assorted edible oddities. I bet you'd like it. Eddie Lin, the main writer has been on a few TV shows too, including CSI Miami.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

Nose-to-Tail Eating: Will It Stick to Your Ribs, or is It Just Another Offal Trend?

Super Jive — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:46:12 -0500

I eat everything, including lots of things I shouldn't. I gleefully eat things that are colored a toxic shade of blue or orange, stuff I find at the bottom of my purse, and once on a bet when I was working retail I ate a security tag to see if it would go off when I went through the door. It didn't. (Protip: want to boost that knife set? Open wide.) Once I even ate half of a fortune cookie that I dropped onto the grubbiest, sketchiest street here in Seattle. It's like the pavement-equivalent of the Victorian-era Thames River, and like Ye Olde Thames, is also probably one step away from being on fire. I blame pregnancy on the cookie incident, but I probably would have done it on a non-pregnant day as well.