Monday, October 5, 2009
Restaurants Mmmm, stewed cockscomb tastes like frog
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Who will be first? Holeman & Finch or Abattoir? The Utne Reader reports:
You know that funny little red thing on the top of a rooster’s head? It’s called a cockscomb, and as Francine Segan recounts for Gastronomica, it’s very tasty:What are these morsels that look like the fingers of a doll-sized woolen globe? . . . We take a taste. The spikes are slightly gelatinous, with hints of delicate frog-leg flavor. “Delicious” is the consensus.
Segan stumbles upon this rare ingredient on a trip to the Piedmont region of northern Italy, where cockscomb is a vital ingredient in a stew known as la finanziera, a 200-year-old dish that also utilizes a rooster’s wattles and testicles (among many other ingredients). The cockscomb seems to be the star of the show, though, which makes sense given the amount of work that goes into its preparation.
(Photo courtesy of the Silicon Valley Watcher.)
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