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Rillettes de Tours

By James MacGuire

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Oct 10, 2013
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The notion that charcutiers use rillettes to rescue the bits of meat that stubbornly cling to pork bones was dispelled for me years ago when I saw the chef Charles Barrier, at his restaurant in Tours, put half a pig into an enormous pot and set it on the stove to simmer. Barrier had learned the process at age…

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