"The appeal of farmhouse cheese, assuming it's well-made, is its rusticity, as opposed to the garishness of big budget, mass-produced cheeses," said Steve Jenkins, author of "The Cheese Primer" (Workman Publishing) and head of the cheese department at Fairway Market in New York.
"Book of Days," which was commissioned by the Purple Rose Theater of Chelsea, Mich., focuses on two defining events in the small, friendly-seeming town of Dublin, Mo.: the death of its leading citizen, the head of a cheese factory (Jim Haynie, in a spot-on, low-key performance), and a community theater production of Shaw's "Saint Joan".
She is also the curator and head cheese of an online museum of kitsch, on her antic Web site, AlleeWillis.com.
At the end of the night, 4 orders of head cheese, 12 rabbit kidney salads, 6 orders of kidneys, 5 cockscombs and halibut, 2 side orders of cockscomb, 7 Rocky Mountain oyster shepherd's pies, 14 sweetbreads, 9 foie gras and 15 hanger steaks had sold -- a resounding success by any measure.
Inventor of foie gras poutine, popularizer of head cheese, butcher: Picard, at his Montreal restaurant Au Pied de Cochon, has for almost a decade been outdoing just about everyone in decadent down-home cooking.
In January 2007, Pap's Louisiana Cuisine, a former owner of the same Prairieville plant, voluntarily recalled 290 pounds of head cheese that may have been contaminated with listeria, FSIS said.
He stands with his hands in the pockets of his robe and contemplates the blade, the opening for the head, and the piece of cheese.
He thrusts his head through the head hole, removes the piece of cheese from the rim of the basket, and sets the package in its place.
— Patrick Farrell Los Angeles Times: Jonathan Gold inhales a few tacos filled with chicharrón prensado, which he describes as "a gooey, porky, slithery meat with overtones of head cheese, scarlet and chunky in appearance and as dense as molten lead".
Mr. Buckley increases the difficulty with a few SAT-type words, like TANTARAS (those are trumpet blares) and GALANTINE, which sounds elegant but is actually a relative of head cheese.
Tacos DF, decorated with splendid murals, including a reworking of the Last Supper with classic Mexican movie stars in place of the disciples, is also the only place in town I have run across tacos made with chicharrón prensado, a gooey, porky, slithery meat with overtones of head cheese, scarlet and chunky in appearance and as dense as molten lead.
