
Pig's head, anyone?
I might have had it and so have you, in all
likelihood.
It's just a way to make salami or any
other kind of sausage. Usually, to make a salami,
you take an
intestine, fill it with ground up pig parts and there you have it.
In this case, however, you'll start with an emptied
head (eyes and mouth sewn shut, all by hand) and
get it filled
with the ground stuff from the rest of the body.
This particular beauty was spotted at a grocery shop
(La Standa, via Pietrapiana, 42, near Piazza
Cesare Beccaria). And there's more good stuff in that
neighborhood (read on)...
Read the rest of: "Testa di Maiale and Other Florentine Treats"»

For all of us who like to go to restaurants
and imagine we've been invited to somebody's
dinner party, there's now a perfect place
to do just that.
Chicago native Daniel Rose (who originally came
to France intending to study philosophy... more on that later)
runs his 16-seat restaurant called Spring
almost as some sort of a one-man show...
Read the rest of: "Spring in Paris"»