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Salute The Pig

Charcuterie, smoking, curing, brining and all things porcine. Brought to you from deepest, darkest Cambs, England by Chris Bulow. In the smoker or in the kitchen....Salutate porcum!

Caff life

Length: < 1 min Local Cafe. That’s its name. Just that. I found it today whilst wandering in St. Ives. It’s everything you want. And it’s a banging local caff; does everything right. Tea, bag left in to allow you to steep to your… Read More »Caff life

Yakitori, tell a story…

Length: 6 mins [Those of you of a certain age — from Britain — may get the reference to an old children’s TV show, alluded to in the title of this piece] I learnt a little while back that there is a porcine… Read More »Yakitori, tell a story…

Hoarding or hording?

Length: < 1 min This is a poster from Nazi Germany, 1942. It says: “Hoarders, [panic buyers], shame on you!”. “Hamsterin” used on the poster is a synonym for hoarder or panic buyer in German. Y’know, because hamsters hoard food in their cheeks… I… Read More »Hoarding or hording?

A poster from Nazi Germany, 1942 "Hoarders, panic buyers, shame on you!" "Hamsterin" used on the poster is a synonym for hoarder or panic buyer in German. Y'know, because hamsters hoard food in their cheeks...

Kebab Erinnerung

Length: 2 mins A short story: “I’ve often considered that a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically, that it’s remade in his image. Which is… Read More »Kebab Erinnerung

A set of skewers filled with various meats on a charcoal grill.

Rub your stomach

Length: < 1 min As BAO exhort after any holiday excess…

A legend of The Fall; see you in 2024.

Length: < 1 min Using the old pylons and lines as roads, the repair gondolas, usage reverting to their Venetian namesakes.

Sweeney Todd. Essex redux.

Length: < 1 min Going past a pub called The Butchers Arms wouldn’t normally warrant anything more than a glance to wonder, idly, if it’s maybe worth a stop-off at some point. That there’s a sign next to it, pointing to The Natural Burial… Read More »Sweeney Todd. Essex redux.

A pale yellow painted pub, with tall chimney stack in the centre and a traditional old tiled roof. 6 windows, 2 doors and a parking area at the front. Called The Butchers Arms

The “sole” survivors…

Length: < 1 min I’m told that the scientific community believes that once we’ve finally destroyed the seas, the only things that’ll be hanging on are squid, monkfish, jellyfish and algae. No sole. Sole-less. Unlike the Stones… “Soul survivor, soul survivorSoul survivor, soul survivorIt’s… Read More »The “sole” survivors…

Two dead sole fishes laid on a wooden slab; one belly up, white, the other belly down with brown speckled camouflage

Pig butchering; a scam?

Length: 2 mins There have probably been a few butchers that have attempted to defraud their customers — I’m sure dating all the way back to when the trade first started, in pre-history days*. Some headlines from the past 20 years give a… Read More »Pig butchering; a scam?

Researchers discovered cut marks on this fossil antelope leg bone from Koobi Fora in Kenya, dating to 1.5 million years ago. © Briana Pobiner

Berlin yakitori

Length: < 1 min Kreuzberg, Berlin, baby. Stoke Berlin, baby. One day…

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