Friday, January 7, 2011

This Week in Food & Drink: A salami evangelist, the Florentine, Key Ingredient spirulina, and more

In Omnivorous Mike Sula profiles Chicago cop Frank Balestri, who not only keeps the old-world tradition of making soppressata—aka "supersod"—alive, but teaches others to make it and hosts an annual supersod competition now going into its fifth year. "The Sodfather" is so protective of his salami that he has a security camera trained on the scores of sticks hanging in his garage—he's been known to go out and check on them at three in the morning.…

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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2011/01/06/this-week-in-food-and-drink-a-salami-evangelist-the-florentine-key-ingredient-spirulina-and-more

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