
While everyone else waits for the future they think they’re owed, grinders work together to modify their bodies, assimilating with technology to make themselves better. Couldn’t restart it.” The Shank Valentine is a grinder bar. A man wearing overalls with surgeon’s tools peeking out of the pockets takes a drink and says, “The kid’s grind went bad. It’s never come, and I never want it to.” Inside the nearby Shank Valentine bar, a recently deceased bloody corpse is spread across a grimy table. Street graffiti preaches, “Not my future,” “You owe me a flying car,” and “Where’s my fucking jet pack.” A passerby remarks, “The future is bullshit.

The neighbourhood is a contract police zone, overrun by pillheads. The supervisory committee consisted of Jorgen Hansen (Principal Supervisor), Bart Simon, and David Howes. * This work is a revised version of the thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Social and CulturalAnalysis) in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal in July 2018.

Transfer into a hot oven and bake at 180ᵒC.Cover the ham with foil, allowing enough space for air to circulate between the ham and foil.Once soaked remove the ham and place it, fat side up, onto a roasting tray After removing any packaging, soak the ham in water for about 24 hours, or as your butcher advises.Once the ham is soaked, the rest is even more straightforward than boiling, so even if you’re a novice cook, this is a technique you can master very easily.


I use a baby bath, but my memories growing up were hams sitting in water-filled, double-bagged bin bags in the family bath at home tied at the top!ĭepending on the curing methods, some hams may not require soaking at all, so check with your butcher to see what soaking is recommended, ensuring you let them know that you plan on baking the ham rather than boiling. It may sound complicated, but all you need to do is immerse the ham in cold water, ensuring that it’s all sitting below the water level. This step isn’t necessary when boiling a ham as the boiling process automatically removes any excess salt, but it is a foolish errand to bake a salt cured ham without soaking. Itsd well worth becoming familiar with baking a ham rather than boiling one as the flavour will reward your effort ten-fold!ĭepending on how the ham was cured, it will most probably be necessary to soak the ham for 24 hours before baking it. It’s very popular to boil hams and then glaze in the oven afterwards, but to me a Christmas ham is only baked without bubbling away in a ham pot beforehand.
