<div class="gmail_quote">On 10 June 2012 00:33, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Has anyone here ever actually devoured brains? I have not, but I have half<br>
a mind to do it, just to know what it is like. It is available at the local<br>
butcher. I already have a technique for devouring strange new foods: go<br>
half rations and zero fat for about three days, then you can eat anything.<br>
I don't recall anyone saying it is necessarily good food.<br>
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Is there any special way it needs to be prepared? Are there any risks<br>
involved such as mad cow disease? Does that apply to swine brains?<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>(Veal) brains are a typical, albeit not very frequently served these days, specialty of Milanese cuisine.<br><br>You can cook them very lightly in a vapour oven and serve them with salt and lemon, or make kind of Milanese cotolettas with thin slices thereof (panfried after passing them in eggs and then in grated bread).<br>
<br>I suspect that things contributing to brains being relatively outfashioned (much easier to find them served at home than in a restaurant) are:<br>- the progressive and stupid reduction of popular cuts (everybody seems to like only tenderloin and t-bone steaks nowadays);<br>
- the 60s and 70s campaign against colesterol;<br>- the 90s terror campaign about the mad cow syndrom.<br><br>I would not have that for breakfast everyday, but it is excellent for a change.<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>