Among the more miraculous edible transformations is the one that turns raw meat, salt and a few basic spices into some of the most delicious foods around. Time was when curing meat, especially stuffed into a casing to make a sausage, was the only way both to use every part …
Peat diggers in Ireland and elsewhere have occasionally unearthed objects, usually made of wood, that contained some kind of greasy, fatty material with a “distinctive, pungent and slightly offensive smell”. Butter. Centuries-old butter. Who buried it, and why, remain mysteries that motivated Ben Reade, an experimental chef at the Nordic Food …