Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Boerewors in Brooklyn update

 Sausages at Los Paisanos

We are on tenterhooks.

Per instructions from my favourite butcher, I went in to Los Paisanos today taking the recipe Warren had recommended, and spoke to Mike Affronti, the owner, and not the aforementioned butcher I spoke to whom I spoke other day...

Mike looked the recipe over, said he needed to make a call to 'a guy' about the sausage, and said he hoped to have good news for me. He took my phone number.

The suspense!

I've just emailed him a little boerewors backstory plus picture to try and explain just what this sausage means to a South African, and basically that if you cut our chests open you don't find a heart, but a coil of boerewors inside (that could explain a lot about South Africa). But mainly that if he started selling boerewors his shop is going to become a Mecca for braai-starved South Africans.

And since a Dubai-based commenter tells me they have a butcher in DUBAI who ships boerewors to their doors, I'm like, We have got to get it going in Brooklyn.

Please, a moment of silence. Think of sausage. Think of glowing coals. Think of a still summer evening. Think of fragrant smoke wisping skywards as a raucous hadeda flies over the garden, Wahahaha, Wahahaha.

Think boerewors.

If you dream it, you can eat it.

5 comments:

  1. Hi,
    Good luck with "the wors". I just want to know two things.
    1. Will darling Estorbo have his first taste of boerewors?
    2. Where is he? Locked up in the closet again?
    I miss him.

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  2. If your campaign does not work we will set up a Cat Company to start a chain of these shops. We are contacting Estorbo to run his(Brooklyn) end of things and we know several cats here who will chip in.
    Good luck!

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  3. Yum! I'd ride the G from W'burg for that!

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  4. stop stop! you're killing me... we've found biltong in Boston, but no boerie. We've tried making our own but it wasn't great. Maybe I should try that recipe....

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  5. Haahaa- your post made me laugh. All the best in getting the boerewors to Brooklyn!

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