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El Corte Inglés department store on the Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona sells ham (jamón serrano, actually) at 125 Euro per Kilo – if you buy some, it will be locked into an electronically tagged plastic box so that you can’t nibble it until you have payed for it at the cashier… Via . . . → Read More: Ham at 125 Euro / Kilo The Trading Standards Institute highlights an increasing problem in the UK (and it wouldn’t surprise me, if the practice is common in other countries too): Supermarkets are injecting raw pork with water and additives to ensure the water is retained by the meat. Tesco, who has already been fined for the practice, but . . . → Read More: Would you like some meat with your water? There are some things which I am happy to consider lost to history. For example, this passage describes a 16th century papal feast: They serve wine that a woolen rag wouldn’t deign to lap up (as Juvenal puts it), which, if you’re insane enough to drink it, will make you vinegary, watery, corrupted, . . . → Read More: The Lost Art of Eating |
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