Tripes à la Mode de Caen

Tripe is not exactly popular in Britain, probably because of its wartime austerity associations and because of the natural reluctance of the British to eat offal at all – which is a shame, because it’s really good. Butchers’ shops in France cook tripe in vast quantities and display it cold and jellified like slabs of ornamental mosaic – you simply buy a cube of it take home and heat gently through. And it is not a ‘make do’ meal for the less well-off but an esteemed gastronomic treat. Try i