My Hedonistic Superbowl Recipe: Cola Braised Pulled Pork Shoulder with Whiskey Barbeque Sauce, Green Cabbage Slaw and Pickled Red Onions

Perfect for a winter party, I like to make braised pork shoulder for big game days – Super Bowl Sunday, in particular. Pork shoulders are large, inexpensive, and an oft underutilized cut. It is perfect for feeding large groups of people, on a budget, with little effort. You can begin the marinating one or two [...]

Garbage Goes Gourmet: Offal and Weeds

A collection of foods that have been excluded from the American diet but are finding their way back in with star power. Bits of offal – liver, spleen, and hearts from local butcher Jake Dickson of Dickson’s Farmstand Meats and marrow bones from Grazin Angus Acres, a local Grassfed Angus ranch in Ghent, NY are [...]

A Can Opening Kind of Weekend

This year I took advantage of the summer bounty and learned to can.  In case you are not familiar, canning at home means preserving food in jars.  In my opinion its an art and one in which I had never dabbled. I followed my roommates lead,  she had canned before,  and the sage advice found [...]

Mushrooms, Medicine, and Culinary Magic with Dan Madura

photo credit: Tom Giebel Dan Madura is the owner of MycoMedicinals, the premier Mushroom distributer of the New York City Greenmarket system. Upon approaching him for this interview, he wanted to clarify that he is not an entrepreneur, but happy to help you anyway he can. If I know anything about good business it’s an [...]

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