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On Fat

If you’ve watched a pig ambling through a field, and seen it stop, and snuff the earth, then you know what I am talking about. Stop, snuff about you, as if to thoroughly ask: What is the offering? How will the body take it on?

Food For Thought, Land, Charcuterie, Food, Meat, ButcheryMeredith LeighOctober 27, 2020#fat, #goodfat, #storedbounty, #ethicalmeat, #ethicalmeathandbook, #confit, #rillettes, #terrine, #lardo, #foodforthought Comment

Light a Good Fire

As I build fire and tend fire for smoked charcuterie, I've been musing on the building and tending of culture, which is, I feel, perhaps the greatest calling of our particular moment.

Food For Thought, Food, Charcuterie, MeatMeredith LeighOctober 6, 2020#ethicalmeat, #ethicalmeathandbook, #culture, #charcuterie, #smokedfoods, #smokingmeat, #smokedmeat, #onlinecourse, #realfood, #fire, #fall, #autumn Comment

Sausage as Muse

Food. Art. Resistance.

Charcuterie, Food, Food For Thought, MeatMeredith LeighJune 12, 2020#sausage, #sausagemaking, #salami, #salumi, #pâté, #realfood, #ethicalmeat, #charcuterie, #purecharcuterie, #purecure, #agriculture, #resistance Comment

You are the Imaginative Ones. You are the Hope. The Revolutionaries.

That you are ignored is the surest sign that you're revolting…

Butchery, Charcuterie, Food, Food For Thought, Land, MeatMeredith LeighOctober 7, 2019#revolution, #ethicalmeat, #agriculture, #resilience, #holism, #realfood, #communityfood, #unlearning, #vision Comment

Cooking is the New Communism

on the smartness of millennials, truth-telling with yourself, aging, and finding joy in the struggle.

Hold Onto Wonder. It is the Best Resistance

A rotten ham is a smorgasbord of epiphany.

Food For Thought, CharcuterieMeredith LeighApril 17, 2018#foodforthought, #nature, #wonder, #mystery, #charcuterie Comments

Top 5 Reasons to Cure Your Own Meat

From budget to wonderment, here are the Top 5 reasons to cure your own meat.

Butchery, Microbiology, Food For Thought, Meat, CharcuterieMeredith LeighDecember 5, 2017#curedmeat, #charcuterie, #purecharcuterie, #ethicalmeat, #diy, #homecured, #purecure, #sausage, #sausagemaking, #salami, #salumi, #wholeanimal Comments