Above – a beautiful carved Lechón, eaten gleefully by a room full of well wishers of Roy and Kyoko Kunisaki at their US wedding party. I just couldn’t resist posting a picture of this beautiful pig. The first time I had Lechón was at a friend’s house, as I was picking him up on New Years, and his family had cooked one in a great big special oven that they owned. The oven alone was an amazing mechanical contraption, with a reinforced sliding shelf to support the weight of the pig and allow you to pull the whole thing out. I really need one of those.
That time, I got to see a friend in his home environment, his arm bicep deep in the pig, removing various organs. My strongest memory of that night was encountering the one food that I think might still defeat me – a gravy made from the pig’s blood and liver, which was possibly the richest thing I’ve ever tasted. Part of me wants to give it another try, and part of me never wants to see it again.
Above – And of course, props to our server, the ever talented Jon Nakamura.
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You should really try out for Fear Factor. These posts make me feel like a culinary pussy.
I really don’t like those kinds of shows. I hate watching really ordinary food being treated as if it’s extreme or disgusting. Especially when it’s ethnic food – there’s kind of a sad racism about it.