Length: 5 mins As an immigrant, I understand how the soul gets lonely for its origins. —MADELEINE KAMMAN But then there’s always a migrant in the kitchens. I’ve written little bits before about how their lived experience has, of necessity, changed for them,… Read More »There’s a migrant in the kitchen. What are you gonna do?
Length: 4 mins Yeah, sorry good people of America, I know that’s a problematic word for you. But us Brits were here first with this UK food item, so just live with the ambiguity. Life is after all ambiguity. There’s rough edges, there’s gaps and holes.… Read More »Fine feasting on Fergus’ faggots
Length: 3 mins I actually managed to remember the source for this post — praise be — coming to you via Le Pigeon’s Gabriel Rucker. We’d watched the Nick Cage movie “Pig” and found out that he’d been given some training by Rucker… …so it… Read More »Grilled pork tongue, refried beans and lardo
Length: 2 mins There’s a deep, rich humorous lode, albeit one that’s already been mined and minted somewhat, from many of the scenes of Peter Falk playing “Columbo”, where he’s caught eating or snacking or simply apparently starving, musing on how long it’ll… Read More »Just one more thing…
Length: < 1 min A rather lovely butter knife (courtesy of an eBay bidding accident), made by a W. M. Gregory of Sheffield in the late 19th Century. One that seemed to be used in grocers & larger houses on what were obviously pretty… Read More »Spanish silver or “The Incorrodible”
Length: 4 mins …and, whilst reluctantly, admitting that I have [on occasion] squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles [or, at least oysters] and noting that I’ve no fucking idea what ‘mumbles’ are, which memory reminded me, for no reason I can work… Read More »I’m just a po’ boy, tho’ my story’s seldom told…
Length: 3 mins The former is a pig… …whilst the latter is porcelain pottery (albeit both started their inexorable Westward journey via The Middle Kingdom). The Meishan (in Chinese 梅山猪 and pronounced may-shaun) pig, is very possibly one of the oldest domesticated… Read More »Make no mistake, it’s Meishan, not Meissen
Length: 2 mins Rather you than me. You remember the old saying that starts “You can take a horse to water…”? In comparison with this serving suggestion, that’s a sunny, quiet, calm, walk in the park. I came across this recipe whilst… Read More »Going in for a kill…
Length: < 1 min Our concept was to have a Ming or Tang dynasty theme for décor, a fine crew of master chefs, and a well-organized dining room crew headed by a courteous maitre d’, host, hostesses, and so on. And we topped it… Read More »Meet the new b̶o̶s̶s̶ idea, same as the old b̶o̶s̶s̶ idea?
Length: < 1 min It’s a good thing. And in this lyrically written piece by the very excellent Nick Hunt you’ll find out more. It’s called “RETURN OF THE FOREIGNERS” and I’d commend you to it.
Length: 2 mins At school I steered clear (in as much as this was feasible anyway in a school that thought a caning, regularly applied, was some sort of educational incentive) from the classics. Latin — taught by a man who, at least… Read More »Here come the hecatombs…
Length: 2 mins This pig breeder, Forest Coal Pit Farm, based in the Snowdonia National Park, popped up in a @JennyLinford piece about the collapse of Farmdrop this week (and in my browsing history back in 2019). They’ve still got their ‘native’ Welsh… Read More »Welsh Iberico?
Length: < 1 min That my granddaughter is known as “Piglet” by her extended family is a source of deep, ongoing delight. Just sayin’…
Length: < 1 min Lost breeds no more… They look to be doing a good job down there in Cornwall, including some lovely looking Lop. [pdf-embedder url=”https://salutethepig.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/heligan-tamworth.pdf” title=”heligan & tamworth”]
Length: < 1 min This post dates back to September 2019, so I’m pleased (if a little surprised after all these months) to see that Flank is still offering it. Who knows, despite this ongoing Covid/Brexit/Tory shit-show, we may yet get to try their… Read More »Out-Flanked
Length: < 1 min I first came across pictures of this “Anti-Gluttony Door”, rather charmingly called a porta pega-gordo (or “fat catcher door”) — located in Portugal’s Alcobaça Monastery — designed to shame their fat monks into dieting whilst they could eat nothing only, as the Latin title… Read More »Respicte quia peccata populi comeditis
Length: 3 mins I found this recipe in my drafts post folder, one first started it looks like, some 18 months back; ‘Rona brain fog means that I can’t now — for the life of me — recall where I originally found it… Read More »Brain & brawns
Length: 8 mins Well, strictly, they weren’t his… If you’ve kept up on recent posts here, you’ll know I’ve recently attempted to write some more personal history whilst mapping some of our childhood houses & experiences. For any of you obsessives out there… Read More »My Dad’s pigs
Length: 3 mins Did they wait for us to go? Escaping Deal more than 20 years ago & it was if the entire 30,000 population were just holding back, checking to make sure we had finally got onto the Bilbao-bound ferry at Southampton,… Read More »A Rose by any other name?
Length: 2 mins From the house-clustered North edge of Deal, starting below the sea-wall, starting below sea level, as is so much of old Deal, towards Sandwich, the grinding pebbles, rough grasses, wind-warped trees on the inward side of our path. Look across the… Read More »Liminal spaces 2
