Eat the whole animal!

The Globe and Mail has a review of The Feasting Room, a small Toronto restaurant whose motto is "eat the whole animal!" The chef picks a different animal each week and creates a six-course tasting menu from its parts... all its parts. Some of the dishes from pig week included: pig's skin served with a bowl of creamy apple sauce, sweet-pea soup with ribbons of crunchy-chewy pig's ears, pig's spleen layered over pork belly and sage leaves and rolled into a pinwheel, pig's trotter stuffed with pork shoulder, and for dessert pistachio and pig's blood Nanaimo bars.

Shown in the picture is a dish from chicken week: chickens feet with strawberry maple glaze.

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Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 20, 2012
Category: Food | Restaurants

Comments

I'm curious how, exactly, they serve the feathers.

Posted by crc on 07/20/12 at 10:26 AM

They would be served in a tickled fancy, of course!

Posted by TheCannyScot in Atlanta, GA on 07/20/12 at 10:58 AM

That is most fowl!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 07/20/12 at 11:06 AM

Chicken feet are YUMMY! :coolsmile:

Posted by Tyrusguy on 07/20/12 at 11:27 AM

Gastrojunkies!

Then there's that stuff in the gizzard, stomach, and intestines to mix into some kind of a dip I suppose.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 07/20/12 at 11:48 AM

You do not either eat chicken feet Tyrusguy!!!

Gross Expat. :sick:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 07/21/12 at 12:16 AM

Hey! We are omnivores.

Posted by BMN on 07/21/12 at 01:06 AM

No, chicken feet is, in fact a hand-food in some Eastern countries. I forget which but the Indochina Peninsula is forcing it's way to the front.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 07/21/12 at 08:14 AM

YES! Patty I have eaten chicken feet! LOTS of people the world over enjoy them. A quick google search turned up 1.7 million hits for chicken feet recipes. The taste? Not surprisingly, just like chicken! :coolsmile:
P.S. As for the parts mentioned by expat,the gizzard contains lots of sand and other "grit" and would make a lousy dip. The gizzard itself, when cleaned chopped breaded and deep fried,MMM MMM Also YUMMY! :coolsmile:

Posted by Tyrusguy on 07/21/12 at 09:50 AM

I have eaten gizzard and liver, but feet just look nasty to me.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 07/21/12 at 10:19 PM

Dad used to suck a neck-bone till it cried out for relief!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 07/21/12 at 11:45 PM

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