I usually like Alton Brown quite well. He is silly and southern. And I have a soft spot in my heart for southern men. I did marry one. And anyway, Alton keeps bricks in his kitchen. And I keep the laser level in my sewing room.
Then I bought the salt pig. DH had mentioned that whenever I am out and about, maybe I can pick him up a salt pig. I stumbled upon one at Le Creuset, on clearance. Victory was mine. Or so I thought.
Salt Pig
I brought the salt pig home and proudly handed it to DH. It is beautiful, French blue, hand crafted. He said, “What’s that?”
You’re kidding right? I told him it’s the salt pig he asked for and he said, “The what?”
I said, “You know, you put salt in it. You’ve been talking about getting one for weeks.”
He examined it, like he was seeing a strange insect and asked, “A what? A peg?”
“A pig! A salt pig!”
DH eyed it again and said, “Are you sure this is for salt? I don’t think my hand can fit in there. I was going to get the one like Alton Brown.”
Alton Brown’s salt pig, that is shaped like a bowl? Oh, the blasphemy! I tell him, “It’s from Le Creuset. The Jacques and Julia collection. You know, your hero Jacques Pepin uses one. I can’t believe you haven’t seen one. Usually they are white.”
DH eyed me skeptically. He said, “You’re sure Jacques has one of these? Not a bowl with a lid?”
No self respecting Frenchman is going to have a bowl with a lid for his salt pig. Why would you do that? You would need both hands. The salt would get condensation and stick together.
The furniture and Muzzy and Provencal fabric and Napoleon have not turned him to the dark side – the Frog side. In spite of the fact that he has learned a good bit of cooking French and only pretends not to know what we’re saying. Alton Brown?
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See, if you had told me to get a salt pig, I’d have been looking for something porcine. So I fail at cooking.
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I’m not entirely what that post was all about. I did not know what a salt pig was either. I’m not sure if I do now. Nope, GoogleImaged it. I have never ever seen that contraption. I thought it was some sort of southern fatback product at first.
I keep my kosher salt in a custard bowl by the stove, but I just started that kind vs. salt shaker salt. I thought Le Creuset was all about heavy duty dutch ovens.
I like Alton Brown, too. He’s funny. If I had learned Chemistry like that, I wouldn’t have hated it quite so much.
Marne that’s funny. I had to double check the dictionary to make sure I understood correctly that porcine is a pig, or something like one. So I fail at animals. Which does not surprise me at all.
Liz, I’m sorry you had to look up the image. I took a picture of ours the same day I wrote this post, but didn’t get it online until now. I do like Alton Brown. But I completely disagree about his salt container with a lid next to the stove.