Assistant to Food Critic (MediaBistro)
Interviews have begun for the incredibly sought-after job of assistant to the food editor of Vogue magazine, Jeffrey Steingarten.
Jeffrey is also author of the best-selling The Man Who Ate Everything and It Mus[…]

yes vicky is korrekt i totally forgot chitlins/chitterlings!!

(this site makes the good point that organmeat is increasingly considered poor pplz diet and demeaning maybe and harder and harder to find in non-sausage form)[…]

ORGAN EATABILITY LEAGUE TABLE:
KIDNEYS = feted by joyce, annoyingly fiddly to prepare, unspoilable
SKIN = crackling!!
TONGUE = does anyone cook their own these days? you never see it on sale raw: cold tongue = called PRESSED tongue in the olden day[…]

Lawyers who cook.
When I was telling my girlfriend about Jeffrey Steingarten, she wasn’t at all surprised he’d been a lawyer before jumping into food writing: “Sure,” she said. “He had a lot of money and since you can […]

Mystery meat
 
So the other day I had tongue for lunch.  It was helpfully labelled ‘lunch tongue’ on the deli counter in Safeways, as opposed to the slightly larger variety also available, which one could presumably slice up for[…]

Cheat’s Culinary Compendium #3
“Sip your spirits and cure your cold, but I will take Port that will cure all things, even a bad character. For there was never a Port drinker who lacked friends to speak for him.”
Thackeray (quoted, u[…]

Pink pork in ok to eat shocker![…]

PUB QUIZ QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

Qustion from the Hope and Anchor, Tottenham Lane. A good 30 question quiz, where the questions are quite hard (winning score was 21, we got 19) and the cash prize was guaranteed as over £40 (it looked more like £60 l[…]

Facts about The Lyric on Great Windmill Street.
1) It is one of the emptiest pubs in Soho on most nights.
2) Despite being rather nice inside in a trad dingy style, and having friendly bar staff.
3) And a juker.
4) It has “Endless Art” on[…]

i’ll have it in a glass plz[…]