Shepherd's Pie

Online, the rule gets enforced like scripture: shepherds keep sheep, so Shepherd's Pie means lamb, and beef makes it a Cottage Pie. The oldest recipe usually cited for the dish asked for cold meat of any kind. For most of its life, nobody was checking what sat under the potatoes.

We trace how a Monday-night leftover earned two names, meet the pharmacist who sold France on a crop it thought was pig feed, and ask why Americans eat so little lamb. The build settles which booze goes in the filling, where cheese belongs, and what keeps the mash from sinking. Real mint sauce gets a defense, and the herb finds its way into the glass, too.

This week's cocktail is the Parmentier's Fancy, an Irish whiskey and dry sherry sour with lemon, ginger, Garden Party bitters, and a peated Scotch mist. Sother makes them himself: https://creativedrunk.bigcartel.com/product/cocktail-bitters/

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