Au Pied de Cochon – - my birthday dinner  I apologize for not
posting last week, but I've been quite busy lately. I've spent
the better part of the last two weeks playing drums for a
college production of the musical "Hair" and I also celebrated
my birthday last week.  images.jpgNoshette kindly took me out to
an early dinner (I had a 7pm curtain call) at the Au Pied de
Cochon, a Montreal restaurant owned and run by Martin Picard, a
local celebrity chef who is best known for his time spent as
sous-chef at Toqué, one of Montreal's most expensive
restaurants. To add another pigtail to his cap, Picard has
authored and self-published a book called Au Pied de Cochon: The
Album, which is not really a cookbook, but more of a
scrapbook/manifesto celebrating the restaurants' food, staff,
family, suppliers, etc. The book includes a 40-page comic, a
DVD, and an introduction written by none other than Anthony
Bourdain, whose contributions to Michael Ruhlman's blog always
entertain me.  Au Pied de Cochon is truly a Quebeco