Meat & Greet No. 1: Let's have an Offal Time

While there are a ton of excellent food blogging events out there, there aren't too many that involve my specialty: meat. So I thought I'd host the inaugural Meat & Greet.

Topic? Offal. Variety meats. The Nasty Bits. Offal cookery occurs in every cuisine and can be as varied as pickled tongue to grilled hearts to sauteed sweetbreads to boiled brains.

I am specifying neither a type of offal nor a critter from whence it came: Your choice. Submit your recipe before May 1, then I will post a round-up shortly thereafter.

And there’s a special bonus for this first event: The recipe chosen as the tastiest by a variety of offal eaters will win the much-coveted The Good Cook: Variety Meats, edited by Richard Olney. It is a hard-to-find classic of the genre and I am willing to give away a copy in the interests of exploration and fun.

Here are the rules:

• Post up a blog item on your favorite variety meat dish by May 1, and email me the following at: scrbblr AT hotmail DOT com. (Your subject line should be MEAT & GREET.)

• Who you are and where you live.
• Your blog’s URL.
• A permalink to your offal post.
• A small (100 pixel x 100 pixel or thereabout) image of your dish, if possible.
• As a courtesy, please link to this announcement when you post.

Looking forward to hearing from you all!