Entries tagged with 'sausages'
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Dry rub Memphis barbecue. [Flickr: orangachang / CC BY-SA 2.0] Memphis barbecue ain't all that. There, I said it. I expected and wanted Memphis barbecue to be the soul shaking, stomach sating, come-to-Jesus occasion everyone says it is. I planned for weeks, read reviews, scoured internet forums, and I did my due diligence talking to locals about their favorite spots once I arrived in the land of Elvis a couple of months ago. I hit Central, Germantown Commissary, Rendezvous, Cozy Corner, Corky's, Interstate, and Leonard's. It's the best I could do in three days, and it's possible if I'd just hit one more place—Neely's or A & R or Pig and Whistle or (insert your local favorite)—I would have...
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[Photograph: Punxatawneyphil on Flickr] The New York Times has a quick piece on Berlin's grillwalkers, who sell sausages from portable grills that they wear—gas on the back; hot, hot bratfest on the front. The innovative apparatus sprang up in 1997, when inventor Bertram Rohloff devised it as a way of skirting city street-vendor permits in the city. Without permits, "neither the grill nor the sausages could touch the ground." As he worked on the invention, Mr. Rohloff considered everything from burning charcoal to hooking the grill up to a car battery — which he rejected because it would run down in just 10 minutes — before settling on propane. He designed it with an automatic cut-off mechanism for the...
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"Susie's is a veritable wonderland of grease and the only advice I have is to submit." [Photographs: Nick Kindelsperger] Susie's Drive Thru 4126 W. Montrose Avenue, Chicago IL 60641; 773-283-6544 The Short Order: Eclectic diner fare, with incredible milkshakes. Want Fries with That? Absolutely. Don't pass up the cheese fries in the taco salad shell. Want Ketchup? No one can be a snob here. Susie's Drive Thru on the northwest side of Chicago must have a perverse sense of humor. It's basically just a stupendously small beef and hot dog stand with three stools and a few picnic tables lined up along a very busy street. But how else to explain something like the corn pole? It's a Polish sausage...
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Swiss meat company Bell recently released a free bratwurst-grilling application for the iPhone where you blow into the microphone to simulate fanning the embers and touch the screen to move the bratwurst around the grill. When you're done cooking, you can email your virtual bratwurst to a friend, who will probably respond with, "What the hell is this for?" Ah, glorious technology. [via swissmiss] Related Locavore 2.0: A More Social iPhone Application for Local Food Shopping FarmFreshNYC: A New iPhone App for Finding Local Food Pizza Calculator Application for the iPhone...
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"I'm not a native of the region, so my introduction to the sausage came through Chris Farley's antics on Saturday Night Live." Jim's Original 1250 S. Union Ave, Chicago IL 60607 (map); 312-733-7820 The Short Order: Perfectly grilled polish sausages loaded with sweet caramelized onions. Want Fries with That? Average, but you'll get them anyway. Want Ketchup? It will help cover up the mediocre fries. I'll try to stay neutral and objective about my whole experience at Jim's Original, but I guess I should preface this by saying: I was given a free coke at this establishment, which may have swayed my opinion. I was just in line but it must be their policy to occasionally award free drinks to...
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A very porky, fatty, and sweet meat tube, Chinese sausage is a beautiful thing. Those pink, chewy slices are everything the typical American breakfast sausage is not.
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Photograph by Elise Bauer Hank Shaw of James Beard-nominated food blog Hunter Angler Gardener Cook has a great photo-heavy homemade sausage tutorial at Simply Recipes. Before delving into his recipe for Italian sweet sausage, he gives advice on what special equipment to get (meat grinder, sausage stuffer, and casings) and what temperature to keep your ingredients at—that is, very cold. "You are looking for as close to 32 degrees as you can get without actually freezing the meat," he advises. He warns that your first batch could take several hours to make, but it's not very difficult overall and you'll get faster with practice. Related Sausage and Law Italian Sausage: Ever Made Your Own? [SE Talk, 2/4/09]...
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Continuing the theme of the Omnivore's 100 and the Traveling Omnivore's 20, Robb Walsh of the Houston Press creates a Ten Texas Sausages to Eat Before You Die list. For vegetarians and people who haven't been to Texas, this list won't be very fun....
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In France, a sandwich américain is a sandwich filled filled with a chopped beef, hamburger-like substance, topped with french fries, and stuffed into a baguette. The
merguez frites is a variation that replaces the hamburger with merguez sausage.
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After a delightful White House visit this morning, Pope Benedict XVI cruised down Pennsylvania Avenue in his sweet popemobile. Apparently, he likes White Houses but not white sausages. He's tired of receiving the wurst, originally from his native Deutschland, as a gift. It's a nice gesture, but a little awkward. You understand, right?...
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