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Cholesterol be damned
This is easy. Fergus Henderson's roasted bone marrow with parsley salad along with some good bread and lots of high quality butter! Of course, there’d be some wine to help cut down on the cholesterol issues -:)
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Strangest or Most Exotic Ingredient/Food you've ever had...
combination of textures and flavors. 3. Roast brined pork belly I recently made myself. (From the marvelous cookbook: “Nose to Tail” by Fergus Henderson.) His is a terrific cookbook, follow the directions and enjoy....
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This Food Is Offal!
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned Fergus Henderson's “The Whole Beast, Nose to Tail Eating”. I finished this book today and will admit that I am not yet ready to singe and shave food in the kitchen, but am...
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Star Chef Cookbooks
Fergus Henderson's Nose to Tail Eating is a great read. Some of the ingredients are difficult to track (tripes, trotters, organs, etc) but many of the techniques are simply saute and braise. http
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[London] Trip Report (Tayyab, Alounak, St. John, L'Autre Pied, Hereford Road, La Petite Maison, and more)
parsley salad on top with a fork, he told me to use my fingers, which I did! We discovered later, from our excellent (French?) waiter, that the men to my right were Fergus Henderson and the owner, Trevor Gulliver. I wasn’t so...
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Any REALLY obscure food that you know about, that others probably don't?
Spleen (in a traditional bar-snack sandwich in Palermo) might be the most obscure thing I’ve eaten. I want to make this Fergus Henderson recipe for pig spleen, found a source but I’d have to order a 25-pound box or...
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Do any of you eat something when you travel ONLY because you know the region is known for them?
having fish ‘n’ chips with mushy peas and slightly-congealed meat pies? Both types of food are uniquely British. But while Fergus Henderson's grilled ox-heart would be delicious anywhere, greasy cod a la newsprint is...
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British Cooking
I’m surprised noone’s mentioned Fergus Henderson yet on this thread. His philosophy is “nose-to-tail eating” - if you’ve bothered to kill the animal, it would be rude not to eat every part of it. So...
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do you collect food related non food things?
Gurley Brown’s Single Girls Cookbook, and Fergus Henderson's The Whole Beast.) I have some others (Silver Palate Books, Christopher Kimball, Gest of Gourmet, etc.), but my bookshelves are full and so a couple of years ago I...
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On recommendations to visitors
of “nose to tail eating” led by Fergus Henderson fro St John, but now seen in many really good restaurants like Hereford Road. The (linked) spin off into the reinvention of the old chop house, with Mark Hix, Quo...
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Cookbook of the Month: September through February 2007-2008
participation but the topics would be interesting to read about. One of Marcus Samuellson’s books—his new one focuses on modern African recipes while his old one on modern Scandinavian seen at his restaurant, Aquavit...
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Best (Funniest? Wittiest?) Food Quotes
, and fermentation….as much as it is also about freshness." - Anthony Bourdain, Interview with Chris Tan (http://www.foodfella.com/Writing%20Pages/Bourdain.html) "if you’re going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use...
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First time in London - dare I ask for recommendations?
An interesting place to try is Rochelle Canteen which is run by Margot Henderson (wife of Fergus of St John fame). It’s quite a little haven in the sometimes grim East End. You can BYO at no extra charge (buy a bottle at...
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A RANT AGAINST THE TERM 'PEASANT FOOD' or its inaccurate, indiscriminate, disrespectful, unchowish use of it.
. And because the peasant diet tends not to provide many surplus calories, nothing – especially not animal protein – is ever allowed to go to waste. Wait a minute – isn’t this what Michael Pollan, Fergus...
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