Unexpectedly today, one of the most awesome books ever showed up unannounced on my doorstep. Sent to me by my brother, whom I don’t speak to that often (not because of a family dispute or anything, we just don’t talk that often). It’s unlike him to send random gifts, so I thought it was very cool.

Anyway back to the awesomeness that is this book:

Charcuterie (Pronounced: shahr-koo-tuh-REE and also shahr-KOO-tuh-ree)

This is a book on how to make pork products like cured meats and sausage. Mmmm. Sausage. Some of the recipes take hours, even days to prepare; and…if you do them wrong…you can get botulism. You cannot deny how cool that is. There’s even a chapter that explains the difference between good white mold and bad green mold.

This is so exciting! Maybe I’ll read it to my kids as a bedtime story.

I wonder what I should make first?

Update: My brother informed me that the co-author (the one whose name I didn’t recognize) is the Chef/Owner of Five Lakes Grill in my hometown of Milford, Michigan. That building was occupied by a department store while I was growing up.