Mr Worf, I grew up in Virginia, and the person who introduced me to hoghead cheese and tripe was my great-uncle JT, Deity rest him well. He was a farmer, originally from Mississippi, if memory serves, and he brought his mother's entire cookbook with him when he left home after she passed away, when he was 16. My great-aunt Maggie (Deity rest her well also) was a great cook in her own right, but she willingly admitted that he taught her a few tricks in the kitchen. Eating at their house was non-stop fun.
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:20:36 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Celebrity chef Beppe Bigazzi upsets viewers with his cat casserole I have eaten hoghead cheese back when I was a kid. A couple of times it was good, but it didn't taste right when I got older and I haven't touched it since. I have also heard about the eggs and tripe before too. She must be from Texas or Louisiana? On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> wrote: Food is a funny thing. My significant other told me today that she was having hogshead cheese for lunch. Do any of you know what hogshead cheese is? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese). Further, she told me how her mother used to scramble cow's brains in her eggs. And don't get me started on eggs (chicken embryos? really?). ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> wrote: > >  > > > Celebrity chef Beppe Bigazzi upsets viewers with his cat casserole > > Richard Owen in Rome > > � 43 > Comments<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article7029058.ece#comment-have-your-say> > > <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article7029058.ece#none> > > > [image: Beppe Bigazzi] > > > > Beppe Bigazzi says cat is better than chicken > > <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/xxx> > > A top Italian food writer has been suspended indefinitely from the country�s > version of the television programme Ready Steady Cook for recommending > stewed cat to viewers as a �succulent dish�. > > RAI, the public broadcasting network, said that it had dropped Beppe > Bigazzi, 77, for offering the recipe on La Prova del Cuoco, which is > broadcast at midday on the main channel. Its switchboard was inundated with > complaints from viewers and animal rights groups. Bigazzi said that > casserole of cat was a famous dish in his home region of Valdarno, Tuscany. > > �I�ve eaten it myself and it�s a lot better than many other animals,� > he > told viewers. �Better than chicken, rabbit or pigeon.� He said that for > optimum flavour the meat should be �soaked in spring water for three days� > before being stewed. > > Elisa Isoardi, the programme�s presenter � who has a cat called Othello > � > tried to steer Bigazzi off the subject. Reports said that during the > commercial break she and the show�s producers tried to persuade him to > apologise to viewers but he refused. > Related Links > > � ITV fined for butchery of I�m a Celebrity rat > <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article7020369.ece> > > � Cats and dogs to be taken off menu in China > <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7003032.ece> > > Carla Rocchi, the head of ENPA, the Italian society for the protection of > animals, said that killing cats was illegal. Francesca Martini, the Deputy > Health Minister, said it was �absolutely unheard of for a public service > broadcaster to tell people how delicious cats are to eat�. She called for > the producers to be investigated for criminal offences involving incitement > to mistreat animals. > > Bigazzi, a consumer affairs journalist and author of Cooking with Common > Sense, has been one of the stars of La Prova del Cuoco for the past ten > years. He is noted for his exuberant style and previously caused uproar by > boiling lobsters live on the show. Yesterday he said that he had only been > joking about the recipe, and he had been misunderstood. > > He added: �Mind you, I wasn�t joking all that much. In the 1930s and > 1940s, > when I was a boy, people certainly did eat cat > > in the countryside around Arezzo.� Food historians said that Italians in > cities such as Vicenza devised cat recipes in times of economic hardship. > Inhabitants of Vicenza are still nicknamed magnagati (cat eaters), and in > some butchers� shops rabbits are sold with their heads to assure buyers that > they are not cats. > > *From pet to pot* > > � In his 1529 treatise on cookery, Ruperto de Nola recommended spit-roasting > cat basted with garlic and olive oil. He wrote: �Take the garlic with oil > mixed with good broth so that it is coarse, and pour it over the cat and you > can eat it for it is a good dish� > > � The Spanish expression pasar gato por liebre derives from the practice of > hunters trying to sell skinned cats as hares. When butchered, the animals > are supposed to look almost identical > > � In 2007 Australians at a cooking contest in Alice Springs sought to curb > the feral cat population by using them in a dish. One judge found the cat > casserole so tough that she had to spit it out > > � Last month legal experts in China responded to pressure from the > country�s > middle class and proposed a ban on eating cat and dog meat. Both are > traditional Chinese dishes but if the law is passed people caught eating > cats could face 15 days in prison > > Sources: agencies, florilegium.org, statemaster.com > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article7029058.ece > > > > > > > > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > ------------------------------------ Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ Individual Email | Traditional http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) scifinoir2-dig...@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! 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