Peasant food vs drugs.

by Ed

Just aded this pic: Journal Canteen

Okay. I

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Jennifer September 28, 2007 at 12:58 pm: Death to grizzle…
Ed September 28, 2007 at 1:04 pm: Ouch! I’m now grizzling over gristle…
Matthew September 28, 2007 at 1:35 pm: I am reminded of the time a certain chef told me that a dish I had negatively reviewed was meant to be rustic. Rustic is fine, I thought, but this thing looked like the Battle of the Somme.
Dave September 29, 2007 at 8:04 am: Not sure what has caused this peasant food thing, I’m seeing the word peasant on a lot more menus these days. I love the way you can eat peasant food with a ruling class (aka $15+) glass of wine…
Phil September 29, 2007 at 7:22 pm: Gristle and bone make you know that you’re alive. At least, alive enough to know that you’re not keen on choking to death.
Ed October 1, 2007 at 10:59 am: Dave, LOL!.
Phil, thanks for reminding me how vital I still am.
neil October 1, 2007 at 12:29 pm: Over bridge of sighs
To rest my eyes in shades of green
Under dreamin’ spires
To Itchycoo Park, that’s where I’ve been

Sorry, just a little ‘ol flashback. Trim those cheeks, rattle those pots ‘n’ pans. Oh hell, I need another tablet or something.
cin October 1, 2007 at 10:56 pm: “At Yarck it was a slow-cooked cheek with all those fatty grizzly extras that took me out (as well as some pretty offhand service but I guess they weren
Ed October 2, 2007 at 6:52 pm: Lol! again.
Cin maybe they thought I was trippin’. It shouldn’t matter but …
Snacker October 5, 2007 at 9:56 am: Dry your tears, princess, and go eat some foam if real food scares you. No-chew dining gets tedious fast.
Michael October 5, 2007 at 10:26 pm: Ed, your scaring me. Cooking on the bone, pork fat, duck fat,- all I am seeing is flavour. I really like a lot of the avant garde cooking with its use of more modern chemical compounds (all cooking is chemistry) but I can’t help wondering if it is an extension of the food that has been produced by MacDonalds all these years. To my mind it seems that one of the big attractions of MacDs is the softness of it all- no real chewing required, no texture(well only one texture). Perhaps given time we will will lose our teeth through evolution. By the way I wonder if there are a lot of food technologists out there looking at the new wave of cooking and its use of various vegetable gums and salts thinking, “I have been doing this for years and noboby thinks I am a genius”.
Ed October 6, 2007 at 6:37 am: Snacker, tried foam. Prefer air.

Michael, no need to be scared. I love meat cooked on the bone and all that fat and, importantly, texture. When I pay for food in restaurants I don’t want to find the fish full of bones, the meat full of gristle or great, unexpected hidden lumps of fat that nearly choke me and that I have to spit out.
Perhaps you are right that many want the texture of McDonald’s burger. Me? I just want their chips to go with my home chopped steak tartare.
anthony October 8, 2007 at 2:02 pm: Couldn’t agree more on the acid, nobody wants to have dinner with a person who’s nervously looking at his hands and saying wibble.
Isn’t the point of slow cooking that the gristle, eventually gets broken down. But yeah there’s some responsibility for chunks that make the guest go gack! I mean it’s not fricking Endurance.
Veins freak me out – I got taken to an offal restaurant and the welcome snack seemed to be a bowl of chopped up major arteries and ventricles.