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rognons

kidneys

St John Hotel, Chinatown, London

There are dozens of French recipes for beef, veal, pork and lamb kidneys, and a few for rognons blanc, which are really testicles!

Pork rognons à la crème is a speciality of Lyon.

Offal

Text © Dana Facaros

Image by Ewan Munro