Here’s a neat story:
I have befriended a French national who was a professional butcher all his life.
He knows his way around charcuterie…he owned the butcher and charcuterie shop in his Alsatian town of Lembach, France.
It was a family-owned business that he worked in from his youth to his retirement about 12 years ago.
When I let him taste this bresaola…he nearly fell over. How could he truly be tasting what he regarded as a complex process reserved for seasoned professionals?
As far as he was concerned, I was just a geeky computer nerd – he was flabbergasted on how I was able to produce this piece of heavenly-cured meat.
This bresaola, by the way, he knows as Swiss Bündnerfleisch or Viande des Grisons from his French motherland.
He charged me to make 2 more pieces…he was going to visit France in the coming months and wanted to share this with two chefs he has great relationships with and both of whom I’ve met and broke bread with on my journeys to Europe.
One was the Michelin Star-pedigreed Alsatian chef, none other than Fernand Mischler, longtime proprietor of the famed gastronomic hotspot of Alsace, the Auberge du Cheval Blanc
Second was Chef Pierre Weller, proprietor of La Source des Sens in Morsbronn-les-Bains – a wonderful upscale hotel, spa and restaurant.
http://www.julienbinz.com/La-Source-des-Sens-devient-Logis-d-Exception_a3479.html
In both scenarios, he let the chefs have it…imploring them to taste this wonderful Bündnerfleisch he had obtained from a charcuterie in Switzerland. They craftily cut the pieces, hoisted it to the nose, tasted it and they bantered back and forth reveling in its splendor.
They asked him what shop had made this…then he dropped the hammer on them!
It was his American friend who made it…they stood in utter disbelief.
Woohoo UMAi Drybag!
Feel free to use this as a customer testimonial if you wish…I am sold!
Jeffery
Trinidad, CO