If you cook duck, goose or pork in its own fat, then bury the meat in that fat as it congeals, you create a sealed environment not unlike one created by canning.
To make the poisons disappear requires repeated boiling, drying, or even burying the meat until it ferments.
At the high end, he turns a grilled double rib steak into the juicy underpinnings for a messy-looking platter of sliced meat buried under an avalanche of truffles, mushrooms, shallots and Parmesan.
Chef Wang's spin on Chongqing chicken, nuggets of meat buried in a mountain of whole dried chiles, is called "Dry spicy tasty diced chicken with ginger and peanut," ($14.95) and has slivers of sweet young ginger and halved peanuts added to the wok; it has become Legend's most popular dish.
Many appear to have been buried without the meat being eaten, suggesting that they had been used as offerings.
The very white, very thin meat is buried under a pile of marvelously musky mushrooms.
He showed people how wood works, where gold should be buried, and how much meat should be eaten (all of it).
In the Azores, they have a dish called cozido, a stew they make by burying vegetables and meat and fish and cooking it all day.
I cut up the meat, bury Tuffy's thyroid pill deep inside a nugget, give them their bowls, then the cutting board, then finally the pan.
(Hopefully that's no omen for young Prince George's forthcoming visit: tens of thousands of expected spectators failed to turn up in the heat and dust, and the caterers had to bury truckloads of meat pies; a military flyover drowned out an unimpressed Dame Nellie Melba and one aircraft crashed before parliament, killing the pilot).
