Chicken Liver Stroganoff
After having a plate of spaghettini with chicken livers at the Gertrude a few weeks ago, I’d been keen to try cooking some livers myself. Growing up we never ate any offal at home; at the restaurant where I worked in college we occasionally cooked fried kidneys, but I’d been too put off by the smell to try them. But recently I’ve come to appreciate the idea of nose to tail eating–and I like the ring of the quote “If you’re going to kill an animal, the least you can do is show it the respect of using the whole thing.” Fair enough. Read More
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Just when you thought it was safe …
Well, that was quick. When I blogged yesterday about the egg recall, I thought my rhetoric about the dangers of our food system might have been a bit overblown. Don’t I feel silly now. A stateside company called Zemco Industries today announced a recall of 380,000 pounds of deli meat products potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the bacteria that causes listeriosis–an outbreak of which was responsible for 23 deaths in Canada in 2008.
You’d think a product named “Marketside Grab and Go Sandwiches BLACK FOREST HAM With Natural Juices Coated with Caramel Color” would be totally safe, but alas it’s not so.
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