Archive for the 'Vittles' Category
What We Talk About When We Talk About Chili
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Scenes like this unfold regularly on stage and screen, usually in hospital or police dramas. Someone in an official uniform, a handsome but somber-faced physician or a dutiful detective, has been tasked with issuing news that no family member ever wants to hear: There has been a horrible tragedy, and nothing will be the same [...]
The New Orleans Po-Boy Festival: A Rich Day for a Poor Boy
Friday, December 4th, 2009Over the years, I’ve been implored by a number of earnest do-gooders to become part of their organizations, to join hands, fight the good fight and help make the world a better place. Save Lake Pontchartrain. Save the Wales. Ban the Nukes. Nuke the Wales. Pave Lake Pontchartrain. And so on. But never before has [...]
Happy Turkey (Stuffed With Duck, Stuffed With Chicken) Day!
Monday, November 23rd, 2009It probably wouldn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that Thanksgiving is easily my favorite holiday of all holidays. It’s been that way for years. There are numerous reasons for this: First, there’s not having to wear a tie and drag oneself to religious services. In fact, there’s no religious obligation at all, [...]
More Spleen, Sir?
Friday, August 7th, 2009As part of the book I published last year, I took part in — and often conducted — a number of meat-themed outings, adventures and experiments. There was the Testicle Festival in Montana (it was hilarious), a day spent helping a young couple on a family farm butcher their cow for the year (it was a lot [...]
When The Chef Is Trying To Kill You
Friday, July 10th, 2009I recently took a long vacation with my family to Portland, Oregon, foremost to celebrate my brother’s college graduation, but perhaps more importantly — we being a family of New Orleanians — to do as much Pacific Northwest eating as we could manage. And I have to say, the food scene in PDX is inspiring. [...]
Back to the Airwaves: TSC talks guinea pigs on LA’s KCRW
Monday, February 2nd, 2009So, if you happened to be in the Los Angeles area a couple of weeks back — specifically on Saturday, January 17th — and you also happen to be a public radio fan, you might have caught a little bit o’ Carnivore fever on KCRW’s “Good Food” program. I had a ball discussing the joys [...]
Carnivore math: Organs + Po-boy = Awesomeness
Monday, September 8th, 2008Last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to guest blog on The Amateur Gourmet, as Adam Roberts was out of town, ostensibly soaking up sun and drinks and eating a lot of tasty treats. My contribution: the story of a simple New Orleans boy living in New York who decided to take one of his [...]
Fun Meat Factoid of the Day
Thursday, May 1st, 2008So if you didn’t hear, last Thursday, April 24th, was National Pigs in a Blanket Day. For real — they have a holiday for pretty much anything nowadays. (Get ready… National Tuba Day and National Respect for Chickens Day are coming up soon!) And an interesting thing happened: I was hanging out with my new [...]
Hey, who knows what they’re putting in sausages these days?
Monday, December 4th, 2006In what has to be the most ridiculous piece of meat news, well…possibly ever, a sausage producer called Black Mountains Smokery has gotten itself into some pretty hot water with the trading standards office in the UK. Why, you ask? Are they putting dogs and cats and orangutans and emperor penguins in their wurst? Nope. [...]
Carnivorous Hero of the Week: Dagwood Bumstead
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006While I’m usually more inclined to count people in the nonfiction, ie. “real,” world in my pantheon of carnivorous heroes, every now and again I’m forced to make exceptions. Now, I realize that the funny papers aren’t exactly high art — though some pop-culture/media studies nerds might disagree — but they have, over the past [...]
