Adventures of a Whole Wheat Pastafarian

Headcheese tops my list of weirdest foodstuff ever.  It's basically a hog's head, boiled, the meat removed, then the broth boiled d...

For the holidays I received this wonderful book called In the Charcuterie by Taylor Boetticher and Toponia Miller.  It's full of beau...

I don't know if it can be rightly called bacon in the purest use of the word.  Bacon is made from pork.  But this cured and smoked mut...

I'm intrigued by stories of food from the Old Country.  Traditional recipes that combine preservation and deliciousness are always up ...

 I just spent the last two days learning to make sausages.  Well, I say learning when in fact it's more like floundering.  But we did ...

Until recent years, fat was one of the most sought after and difficult to acquire foods (unless you lived in the Arctic  but that's a ...

Having no recipe to guide me, working only from my own experience and fables of how they make that amazing smoked salmon in the norther...

I'm not big on holidays, unless they create a good excuse to cook up something special.  Today\s not an official holiday, but it is a sp...

My first attempt at making bacon at home turned out rather tasty.  It may not be the perfect rasher, but it is most certainly bacon. ...