On Food and Cooking

foie gras will give, retain the imprint, and feel somewhat supple and unctuous, while an under-fatte ...

To make a terrine, the livers are pressed gently into a container and cooked in a water bath; to prepar ...

collagen (skin also provides flavorful fat). Connective tissue has two uses. First, in long- cooked stocks, ...

major exceptions to this rule. The first is caul fat, a thin membrane of connective tissue with a la ...

pork fat is used to provide both flavor and succulence to lean meats, applied either in a thin sheet th ...

lard from pig kidneys, and lard from back and belly fat. Chicken, duck, and goose fat are still le ...

the most luxurious. Sausages The word sausage comes from the Latin for “salt,” and names a mixture of chopped ...

and/or smoked to varying degrees in order to keep for a few days or indefinitely. The meat and fat may be chop ...

Grind pork or other livers after they have boiled a little. Then cut up pork belly to the amount of ...

But they’re often cooked again just before eating. They can be made from the usual mixture of meat and fat ...

mortadella (“bologna”) is similar. These sausages have a very fine-textured, homogeneous, tender inter ...

around 50–55%, emulsified sausages are perishable and must be refrigerated. Sausage Ingredients: Fat and Casin ...

Sausage casings were traditionally various parts of the animal digestive tube. Today, most “natural” ...

should be thoroughly cooked to kill microbes, but no hotter than well-done meat, or 160ºF/70ºC. Gentle cooki ...

synonymous, though today “pâté” usually suggests a fairly uniform and fine-textured mixture based on liver, “terri ...

during cooking. The mix is seasoned more strongly than many foods both because it’s rich in flavor-bin ...

gave them their name. Pastez de beuf Take good young beef, and remove all fat. Cut the lean into piec ...

spoilage has been a major challenge throughout human history. The earliest methods, which go back at l ...

in a sterile container hermetically sealed against the entry of microbes. Mechanical refrigeration and freezing ...

popular. Modern examples include American jerky, Latin American carne seca, Norwegian fenalår and southern A ...