Ellen Killoran

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Ellen Killoran is the Media & Culture Editor at IBTimes. She previously contributed to The L Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, and The Daily, and co-produced the HBO documentary "Youth Knows No Pain." Write her at e.killoran@ibtimes, and follow her on Twitter @EllenKilloran.

Ellen Killoran

Eating the Whole Animal

Wall Street Journal’s food critic Bruce Palling wrote an amusing piece on offal today, as an introduction to the expanded edition of Anissa Helou’s book, The Fifth Quarter: An Offal Cookbook.“We all know that offal isn't everyone's cup of Lapsang Souchong,” Palling wrote. “It means nonskeletal meat, such as organs and glands, as well as extremities like feet and tails or heads from anything edible.”Paling goes on to remind us that shifted mindset among gourmands towards offal is ...

Happy National Escargot Day!

Philadelphia is the host of this year's celebration of the terrestrial mollusk.Escargot (or snails) is primarily considered a French dish. But archeological work dedicated to the prehistoric, “cave man” era has discovered large quantities of snail shells, indicating they were an important component of the diet.Today there are roughly 116 types of edible snails. In France, only two types are commonly eaten: the 'Petit-Gris', or ‘Little Gray” and the 'Escargot de Bo...

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