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Coda for Two

Coda is short for ‘Coda alla vaccinara’, i.e. oxtail stew (see an earlier post I wrote about it earlier this year in April).  I bought a small batch of the tail of the animal, that the butcher had already cut … Continue reading

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Tails you win – La Coda alla Vaccinara

“Coda alla vaccinara” is Oxtail cooked the Roman way, the way of the Testaccio area, where the abbatoir used to be and where poorer people, for centuries, only had access to the cheapest cuts of meat … including the tail … Continue reading

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