Sweetbreads!
At dinner on Tuesday evening in Johnny’s Bistro in Cleveland I found Veal Sweetbreads on the menu. A generous but not overwhelming portion of three sweetbreads wrapped in bacon and sautéed was served with a small salad. One of my colleagues said that she had always believed sweetbreads to be brains and others who think of them as “Prairie Oysters” or ox testicles. If you explain that these are actually the thymus gland from a calf, the enthusiasm still doesn’t rise noticeably, but there you have it.
Sweetbreads, as I bemoaned in a previous posting, are very difficult to obtain where I live. Even the main market in Cleveland doesn’t seem to have them. What happens to sweetbreads? Where do they go? This is one of life’s mysteries.
Once I asked a supermarket butcher for lamb kidneys, and he replied that they don’t have them anymore. Of course he meant that the lamb carcasses delivered to his store didn’t come with kidneys, but I had an immediate vision of the New Zealand sheep farmer tenderly rounding up his sheep every three days for their dialysis sessions.
Sweetbreads, as I bemoaned in a previous posting, are very difficult to obtain where I live. Even the main market in Cleveland doesn’t seem to have them. What happens to sweetbreads? Where do they go? This is one of life’s mysteries.
Once I asked a supermarket butcher for lamb kidneys, and he replied that they don’t have them anymore. Of course he meant that the lamb carcasses delivered to his store didn’t come with kidneys, but I had an immediate vision of the New Zealand sheep farmer tenderly rounding up his sheep every three days for their dialysis sessions.
posted by William @ 6:29 AM
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