Choucroute Garnie

Oh, steaming heap of pork! Thy glistening hues of white and gray and pink! The aromatic waft of sauerkraut, redolent of Germans pouring across the border (yet again) into France with their bacon and their sausages! This is not a dish. This is a party! Just promise me: no oompah music! This is one dish, by the way, for which readers from the Midwest and Pennsylvania might actually have an advantage over their brethren on the coasts, suppliers of German specialty items being, one would