In the Charcuterie
Autor Taylor Boetticher, Toponia Milleren Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 sep 2013
Ne-a atras atenția modul în care pasionații de gastronomie, de la amatori ambițioși la profesioniști, redescoperă astăzi arta conservării cărnii. In the Charcuterie nu este doar o culegere de rețete, ci o resursă definitivă care transformă bucătăria de acasă într-un atelier artizanal. Scrisă de Taylor Boetticher și Toponia Miller, fondatorii celebrului Fatted Calf, lucrarea propune o întoarcere la origini prin tehnici de măcelărie aplicate pe animalul întreg și metode de conservare care au definit istoria culinară. Subliniem rigoarea instrucțiunilor pas-cu-pas, susținute de 250 de fotografii care demistifică procese complexe precum legarea unei porchetta sau umplerea carnatilor de casă. Structura cărții este gândită progresiv: începe cu organizarea „Cămării Charcutierului”, unde învățăm să pregătim amestecuri de condimente și lămâi conservate, trece prin „Aprovizionarea Larder-ului” cu confit-uri și supe concentrate, și culminează cu secțiuni dedicate măcelăriei aplicate pentru rață, iepure, porc sau miel. Complementar volumului Charcuterie de Michael Ruhlman: unde acela se concentrează pe fundamentele științifice și tehnice ale sărării și afumării, In the Charcuterie explorează aplicabilitatea practică și creativă în contextul unui magazin artizanal modern, oferind o perspectivă mai axată pe rețete finite și prezentare. Notăm cu interes includerea unor preparate mai puțin convenționale, precum Pozole din cap de porc sau limba de porc murată, care demonstrează un respect profund pentru utilizarea integrală a resursei. Tonul este unul încurajator, invitând cititorul să experimenteze răbdarea necesară unei terine perfecte sau savoarea unui preparat „The Cuban” prăjit lent.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1607743434
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 250 FULL-COLOR PHOTOS
Dimensiuni: 235 x 261 x 35 mm
Greutate: 1.61 kg
Editura: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
De ce să citești această carte
Pentru cine dorește să treacă dincolo de simpla gătire a cărnii și să exploreze meșteșugul conservării. Cititorul câștigă independență culinară, învățând să tranșeze, să prepare propriile mezeluri fără aditivi și să utilizeze piese de carne mai puțin populare dar extrem de gustoase. Este manualul ideal pentru cei care văd în bucătărie un spațiu de creație și proiecte DIY pe termen lung.
Despre autor
Taylor Boetticher și Toponia Miller sunt mințile creative din spatele Fatted Calf, una dintre cele mai respectate măcelării artizanale din Statele Unite. Cu o experiență vastă acumulată în Europa și în California, cei doi au fost pionieri ai mișcării de revigorare a charcutieriei tradiționale. Boetticher a studiat arta măcelăriei în Italia, aducând în San Francisco tehnici autentice de producție a salumi-ului. Împreună, au transformat Fatted Calf dintr-o mică afacere de piață într-un punct de referință pentru sustenabilitate și calitate, promovând utilizarea animalelor crescute responsabil și respectul pentru tradiția gastronomică.
Notă biografică
Extras
WHEN YOU FIRST walk through the doors of the charcuterie, it feels as if you’ve entered an enchanted world of meaty wonders. The aroma of crispy-skinned pork roast fills the shop, inviting you to try a bite. Our cases are filled with pâtés, salumi, sausages, roasts, and terrines—and when the meat counter crew offers you a slice of the fennel-flecked sbriciolona and a piece of headcheese, it’s hard to say no. Walk back into our kitchen and you’ll smell spices toasting, bones roasting, and broths simmering. Someone is churning out coils of fresh sausage from the hand-cranked stuffer, and someone else is hanging huge, freshly-cased cotechino on hooks for fermentation. We’re hand-shredding a veritable vat of duck rillettes, seasoning it with freshly chopped thyme, then packing it into jars and sealing each with a creamy layer of duck fat. Bacon has just finished in the smoker! Go ahead and tear a hot piece off the end of the glistening slab. Peer into our curing room where row upon row of salami, guanciale, and pancetta hang quietly, patiently, enrobed in a delicate snowy bloom of mold.
Our book, In the Charcuterie, has something for everyone, whether you’re a skeptical ex-vegan, scimitar-wielding novice, or seasoned old pro. When you walk into a butcher’s shop and spy a pork shoulder in the case, we want you to see more than just a hunk of meat. We want you to see all of the possibilities that the pork shoulder has to offer—from shoulder chops and stuffed roasts to picnic hams and salami. We want you, knife in hand, to experience what it is like to break a whole animal into its parts. We want to share with you not only the knowledge of butchering and cooking we have accumulated through our work, but also the respect we have for the raw ingredients, the satisfaction we derive from working in the kitchen, and the pleasure of sitting at the table with friends and family to eat what you have created. We want people to better understand the processes of charcuterie by participating in it. So we invite you to slip into our greasy clogs for just a little while. In this book, we’ll ask you to plunge your hands into a freshly ground farce to make sausage, inhale the intense perfume of a spice blend, confidently carve a roast, and more. And at the end, you get to enjoy the delicious results of your labor and passion.
We cook a lot, not just in the charcuterie but at home as well. The methods and recipes in this book are based on our professional experience of working in a charcuterie for roughly a decade—but they are also written with the home cook in mind. Quite a few of the recipes and methods presented here are simple to master, and we hope that they’ll edge their way into your culinary repertoire with ease. Others are more challenging, multistepped processes that require several days or even weeks.
Charcuterie is a discipline that requires patience. Allowing plenty of time and space is the key to successful smoking, curing, and terrine- or sausage-making. The gratification is far from immediate, and may seem out-of-sync with our modern way of life. But we believe that there is a place for these meaty meditations: they can teach us truths about history, community, sustainability, and self-sufficiency. With In the Charcuterie, we want you to take the same pleasure from butchering, cooking, and preserving your meat as you do savoring it at the table.
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Carne Cruda
After a long transcontinental flight with missed connections and a jarring car ride from Nice, we finally arrived in adorable Alba too late for lunch. We found one tiny restaurant about to shut its doors for the afternoon that took pity on us. The kitchen was officially closed, but the staff fixed us a plate of carne cruda, a slightly intimidating heap of hand-cut raw beef drizzled with olive oil and accompanied with a lemon wedge. It was a love-at-first-bite moment, and to our surprise, we polished it off with gusto, then proceeded to eat our weight in various incarnations of carne cruda throughout Piedmont. Both well-trimmed sirloin and tenderloin, two cuts that are lean, flavorful, and tender, work well in this recipe. It is crucial to use fresh high-quality beef and to cut the meat by hand. To ensure a small, uniform dice, chill the beef thoroughly beforehand and use a sturdy, sharp chef’s knife. Crisp flatbreads, crostini, or halved hard-boiled eggs make excellent accompaniments. Serves 6 as an hors d’oeuvre or 4 as a first course
1 pound (450 g) lean beef sirloin or tenderloin, well chilled
1 teaspoon coarse sea salt (such as Maldon or fleur de sel)
1/4 teaspoon finely ground pepper
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
Juice of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Generous handful of arugula, cut into
narrow ribbons
1/3 cup (75 ml) extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for finishing
Trim any silver skin, gristle, or large pieces of fat from the exterior of the beef, then cut into 1/4-inch (6 mm) cubes. Place the beef in a bowl. Add the salt, pepper, garlic, lemon juice, parsley, and half of the arugula and fold them into the beef to mix evenly. Stir in the olive oil and taste for seasoning.
To serve, mound the beef mixture onto a large plate. Garnish with the remaining arugula and drizzle with olive oil.
Descriere scurtă
The tradition of preserving meats is one of the oldest of all the food arts. Nevertheless, the craft charcuterie movement has captured the modern imagination, with scores of charcuteries opening across the country in recent years, and none is so well-loved and highly regarded as the San Francisco Bay Area’s Fatted Calf.
In this much-anticipated debut cookbook, Fatted Calf co-owners and founders Taylor Boetticher and Toponia Miller present an unprecedented array of meaty goods, with recipes for salumi, pâtés, roasts, sausages, confits, and everything in between. A must-have for the meat-loving home cook, DIY-types in search of a new pantry project, and professionals looking to broaden their repertoire, In the Charcuterie boasts more than 125 recipes and fully-illustrated instructions for making brined, smoked, cured, skewered, braised, rolled, tied, and stuffed meats at home, plus a primer on whole animal butchery.
Take your meat cooking to the next level: Start with a whole hog middle, stuff it with a piquant array of herbs and spices, then roll it, tie it, and roast it for a ridiculously succulent, gloriously porky take on porchetta called The Cuban. Or, brandy your own prunes at home to stuff a decadent, caul fatߝlined Duck Terrine. If it’s sausage you crave, follow Boetticher and Miller’s step-by-step instructions for grinding, casing, linking, looping, and smoking your own homemade Hot Links or Kolbász.
With its impeccably tested recipes and lush, full-color photography, this instructive and inspiring tome is destined to become the go-to reference on charcuterie—and a treasure for anyone fascinated by the art of cooking with and preserving meat.
Recenzii
— Patrick Martins, founder of Slow Food USA and the Heritage Radio Network, president of Heritage Foods USA
“If you love chopping, grinding, salting, stuffing, and curing—or anything deliciously handmade—then this is the book for you! Taylor and Toponia show you how to make a wide array of meaty goods, from simple gingery duck legs to a hunter-style sausage.”
— April Bloomfield, chef/owner of the Spotted Pig, the Breslin, and the John Dory Oyster Bar, and author of A Girl and Her Pig
“This book is incredibly well written. The charcuterie recipes are outstanding, and Taylor and Toponia’s clear instruction make the process less intimidating and more accessible. The other recipes are very inspired—their diverse flavors and preparations will take you on a great little culinary odyssey.”
— Traci Des Jardins, chef/owner of Jardinière and Mijita Cocina
“With In the Charcuterie, Taylor and Toponia have created the New American cured meat manifesto. Like a plump, overstuffed sausage, this incredible piece of work—the product of years of experience and a lifetime of passion—is brimming with useable, accessible recipes that are fit for the home cook and the professional chef alike. This book sets the bar for neotraditional charcuterie makers.”
— Matt Jennings, chef/owner of Farmstead
Cuprins
1 The Charcutier’s Pantry
Five Spice
Herbes de Provence
Preserved Meyer Lemons
Dried Fruit in Brandy
The Charcutier’s Wild Mushroom Duxelles
Funghi Sott’olio
2 Provisioning the Larder
Truffled Crema di Lardo
Flaky Leaf Lard Biscuits
Roasted Nettle Butter Chicken with Spring Vegetables
Basic Rich Broth
Basic Rich Roasted Broth
Pork and Duck Noodle Soup Broth
Crespelle and Chanterelle Mushrooms in Game Bird Broth
Creamy Semolina with Roasted Chicken Broth, Greens, and Pecorino
Sausage Confit
Whole Duck Confit
Classic Cassoulet
3 In the Butcher Shop
Gingery Braised Duck Legs
Chopped Chicken Liver Crostini
Chicken-Fried Quail
Rabbit Cacciatore
Five-Spice Baby Back Ribs
Chermoula-Marinated Pork Chops
Pork Bollito Misto
Fennel-Dusted Pork Shoulder Steaks
Tonno di Maiale
Pig Head Pozole
Pickled Pork Tongues
Lamb Rib Chops with Ras el Hanout
Goat Shoulder Birria
Peposo
Rib Eye for Two
Carne Cruda
Rare Roast Beef
4 Skewered, Rolled,Tied & Stuffed
Pork Brochettes with Herbes de Provence
Harissa-Marinated Lamb Kebabs
Marsha’s Grilled Rabbit Spiedini with Chicories, Olives, and Almonds
Pancetta-Wrapped Pork Tenderloin
Pork Country Rib with Sherry, Garlic, Thyme, and Pimentón
Rabbit Porchetta
Brasato al Midolo
The Cuban
Fig-and-Sausage Stuffed Quail
Pork Shoulder Pot Roast Stuffed with Garlic, Greens, and Walnuts
Wild MushroomߝStuffed Pork Rib Roast
Duck Stuffed with Farro, Figs, and Hazelnuts
5 Sausage, Salami & their Cousins
The Ugly Burger
Duck and Lemongrass Sausage Patties
Lamb and Herb Meatballs
Oaxacan-Style Chorizo
Bockwurst
Blood Sausage with Caramelized Apples and Cognac
Cotechino
Belgian Beer Sausage
Kolbász
Hot Links
Cacciatorini
Saucisse Sec aux Herbes de Provence
Pepperoni
Sbriciolona
6 Pâtés: Potted Meats, Terrines & Loaves
Rabbit Rillettes
Ciccioli
Oxtail Terrine
Headcheese
Meat Loaf
Forager’s Terrine
Spiced Lamb Terrine
Duck Terrine with Brandied Prunes
Veal and Chicken Galantine
Cou Farci
Duck Liver Mousse with Armagnac Cream
Foie Gras Terrine with Madeira Gelée
Foie Gras Torchon with Port and Quatre Épices
7 Brined, Cured & Smoked
All-Purpose Poultry Brine
Garlic Brine
Cider-Brined Pork Porterhouse Chops
Smoked Ham Hocks
Braised Ham Hocks
Picnic Ham
Croque Monsieur
Choucroute Garni
Corned Beef Brisket
Pancetta Arrotolata
Bresaola
Guanciale
Brown SugarߝCured Bacon
Pastrami
Pulled Pork
8 Accoutrements
Bread and Butter Pickles
Classic Cucumber Dills
Pickled Red Onion Rings
Loulou’s Garden Sweet-and-Savory Fruits
Marinated Olives
Root Vegetable Chowchow
Traditional Sauerkraut
Cherry Mostarda
Green Tomato Chutney
Black Coffee and Bourbon Barbecue Sauce
Chile Tomato Sauce
Horseradish Salsa Verde
Céleri Rémoulade
Simple Beans
Cowboy Beans
Fagioli all’Uccelletto
Butcher Shop Lingo
Sources
Acknowledgments
Measurement Conversion Charts
Index