By far one of the most original cookbooks in my collection. The recipes are easy to follow, and straight forward. The book is so much more than a cookbook though – it’s a journal which documents the beginning of Meat Liquor through it’s various incarnations, to the beast it is now. There are lots of photographs of the crew, little vignettes, there’s a whole conversation about queuing, refereed by Stefan Chomka… In fact, maybe that’s why I like it so much? It feels like my twitter stream, full of the opinionated and food obsessed people I love. I’ve listed some of the recipes at the bottom, but I can’t imagine you’ve found your way to this book without knowing who Meat Liquor are. If you do, yes, my darlings – you’re going to love it!
‘Surely your gospels and all they represent, must live in the air?’ a layperson said to the MEATdaddy. ‘Because the qualities you celebrate in this place are around us at all times – they’re enlightenments, decisions, forces that resist herding into cathedrals like this. I mean, didn’t the mobile gospels prove more apt, in that the wagon exposed itself to a greater volume of what we seek? Wasn’t it better that diverse peoples from all around came at the wagon’s appearance, rather than to one unmoving place?’ [… SOME TIME LATER…] ‘If all I carry into the cathedral is an intangible value, and if it consumes my whole purpose in going there, then I become intangible too, for the purposes of argument. And as an intangible, I need go nowhere, because the value I represent can be argued in my absence.”
The MEATdaddy took a moment to adjust his robes, examining the well-worn sole of a sandal. ‘Except for one thing,’ he said: ‘a burger and a cocktail are tangible.’
‘Ah, but then…’
‘Do you want a f****ing burger or not?’
‘I mean…”
‘F*** off then, there’s a queue forming.’
‘Eh?’
‘We don’t serve intangibles.’
Some of the recipes:
Layover Chili
The Dead Elvis
Ossobuo
Greek Lemon Chicken
Salt Cod, Cream and Potato Pie
London Lamb Chops
There are also lots and lots of cocktails:
Diesel and Honey
Blood and Dust
Donkey Punch
Morning Glory
Corpse Revivers (3)
The Negroni
The New Cross Negroni…
I think you get the message…
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