{"id":848,"date":"2011-07-09T13:22:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T03:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=848"},"modified":"2011-07-09T13:22:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T03:22:04","slug":"respect-your-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2011\/07\/respect-your-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Respect your food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reflecting recently, as I made a complete butchery of removing the skin from a shoulder cut that I will turning into pulled pork today, that <em>butchery<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0isn&#8217;t a fair word when you mean &#8220;a friggin&#8217; mess.&#8221; Maybe I&#8217;m just a little sensitive since <em>Four Corners<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0did their <a title=\"A Bloody Business\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/4corners\/content\/2011\/s3228880.htm\">expos\u00c3\u00a9 on Indonesian abbatoirs<\/a>, but I have long felt (and I&#8217;m not alone) that since I derive my own sustenance and life from an animal, I should treat its gift to me with as much respect as possible. And good butchers do just that. They have the tools and training to prepare cuts in ways that I never could.<\/p>\n<p>So, as I spent a good thirty minutes wrestling the skin off that &#8220;easy-carve&#8221; joint (not facilitated by the cat demanding her cut), I decided that I wasn&#8217;t just going to waste the excess that the recipe told me to dispose of. I made my first attempt at crackling. It wasn&#8217;t awesome, but it was good enough. And I hope that using more and more of the animal, instead of just the bits I was focused on can make up for the fact that I wasn&#8217;t a very\u00c2\u00a0skillful\u00c2\u00a0butcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reflecting recently, as I made a complete butchery of removing the skin from a shoulder cut that I will turning into pulled pork today, that butchery\u00c2\u00a0isn&#8217;t a fair word when you mean &#8220;a friggin&#8217; mess.&#8221; Maybe I&#8217;m just a little sensitive since Four Corners\u00c2\u00a0did their expos\u00c3\u00a9 on Indonesian abbatoirs, but I have long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[29,166,521,522],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-dG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}