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The River Cottage Meat Book
Excellent source of sustainable meat mojo: background, techniques, and recipes, and written by the prince of modern & progressive smallholders.
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing
This is the brightest star in the modern charcuterie constellation, my main source of charcuterie principles & recipes, and perfect for both beginners and more experienced students of charcuterie.
The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating
Uncle Fergus leads the modern nose-to-tail revolution. Indispensable.
Beyond Nose to Tail: More Omnivorous Recipes for the Adventurous Cook
More of the same good nose-to-tail tuition.
CHARCUTERIE AND FRENCH PORK COOKERY
Another extraordinary resource for learning to make charcuterie.
Cooking by Hand
A seminal reader on butchery & charcuterie, with deeply thoughtful essays on food from the bottom up.
Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes
Love the fat, and all will be well.
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
An important book which highlights the nutritional benefits of meat, fat, and offal.
Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
A beautiful treatise on Nordic cuisine with an emphasis on a local approach.
Manual of a Traditional Bacon Curer
A fascinating and practical perspective on traditional British curing of bacon, hams, etc. Lots of helpful photographs, and many recipes.
Tag Archives: charcuterie
Spicy Bright Birthday Balls
Each December my family celebrates my birthday by getting our Jule-cozy on with a Sunday visit to the Solstice & Christmas revels in Hanover, and then we head over to enjoy dinner at my favorite local restaurant, West Lebanon’s Yama. … Continue reading
Posted in beef, charcutepalooza, charcuterie, nose-to-tail, pork, recipe
Tagged caul, charcutepalooza, charcuterie, crepinette, faggot, fat, frikadelle, gayette, japchae, lace lard
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Good Smoke Bad Smoke
The April Charcutepalooza challenge is hot smoking, and April 1st is the date that my building officially became non-smoking. I’ve smoked cigarettes on and off for years, and for the last ten years or so I’ve derived less pleasure and … Continue reading
Posted in charcuterie, duck, Fish, recipe, Smoke
Tagged charcutepalooza, charcuterie, duck ham, duck prosciutto, fergus henderson, fish pie, quitting, raymond blanc, salad
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Best Pancetta Ever
Back in February for the Charcutepalooza challenge, I made several bacons, and at the same time I mixed up a wildly fragrant dry cure including salt, a bit of Muscovado sugar, toasted and crushed black & white peppercorns, fresh thyme, … Continue reading
Posted in bacon, charcuterie, pork
Tagged charcutepalooza, charcuterie, dry cure, pancetta, spicy
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Brine + Love = (Rullepølse + Corned Beef + Sunshine)
As March roared in with yet more stormy winter weather, a series of dismaying events occurred. First, my beloved truck broke down in a decidedly permanent fashion. As a wheelchair-using person who lives rurally, I spend most of the year … Continue reading
Posted in beef, charcuterie, pork, recipe
Tagged beef, brisket, charcutepalooza, charcuterie, corned beef, pork belly, rullepølse
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Vermont Salumi
I heard a story recently on Vermont Public Radio about a charcuterie maker named Pete Colman, and being a student of the art myself, and impulsive, I looked up his website and called him to ask if I could come … Continue reading
Posted in charcuterie, pork, sausage
Tagged charcuterie, lunch, Pete Coleman, salumi, sausage making, Vermont, Vermont Salumi, winter
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Duck Prosciutto
The first project for Charcutepalooza, also known as The Year of Meat, is duck prosciutto. I was excited to hear this as I’ve been wanting to make it since I read about it in Ruhlman’s and Polcyn’s book Charcuterie. The … Continue reading
Posted in charcuterie, duck
Tagged air cured, bánh mì, charcutepalooza, charcuterie, duck, duck prosciutto, prosciutto
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