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Its not just a egg

November 25, 2007 on 9:12 pm | In Blog, Offal | 29 Comments

A few weeks ago, my wife’s friend Debra said she had a true delicacy for me to try from the Phillipines. I said I couldn’t wait. So last week I go into my fridge and there is this egg carton there for me to take to work, when I get to work I open the carton to find this:

balut in egg carton

After a closer inspection and I flipped the eggs over I find a note written on the shell for me.

balut message

So who can resist such a great prophecy, so I crack the egg and get ready to dig in and find this.

cracked balut egg

As hard as I tried I couldn’t get it down, and I can eat almost anything thrown my way. I guess the prophecy won’t come true. Darn. But to be serious this is a huge undertaking for someone who has never had anything like it. The crunch of the bones and the tickle of the feathers are hard to get used to.I know this is a common dish in many countries but for me it was way over the line. Sorry Debra– I couldn’t do it.

Common Ground Magazine

November 20, 2007 on 3:09 pm | In Offal, Press | 5 Comments

Pigs head portrait

Who would have thought that a primarily vegetarian magazine would do a story on me and my offal beliefs. A little bizarre to see my photo among ads for yoga and raw foods but, its nice to see that folks are grasping the concept whether they eat it or not.

Proper Turkey Slaughter

November 18, 2007 on 11:43 pm | In Blog, Restaurants, Resources | 2 Comments

heirloom turkey

In preparation for Thanksgiving this coming Thursday my friend Jonnatan Levia and I spent our Sunday morning up in Sebasatapol helping slaughter heirloom breed turkeys with the 4-h kids and my good friend Jim Reichardt of liberty ducks. Continue reading Proper Turkey Slaughter…

Offal on Modern Marvels

November 15, 2007 on 11:32 am | In Events, Offal | 3 Comments
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A few months ago the folks from the history channel came by and filmed me cooking pork offal. I just received the news it will be airing on modern marvels.

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