Here, he’s the sinister hock shop owner from whom James McCavoy tries to buy his childhood bike. In a pleasing moment of self-referential meta-ness, King refuses an autograph from McAvoy’s ...

I enjoyed a meal similar to this smoked bacon hock salad (pictured above) in rural France some years ago and more recently was reminded of it at a locavore lunch at Dough Bros Restaurant in Hamilton.

It was bought for seven cents in a New York hock shop by Mr. A. J. Franck, an astute metropolitan collector, and passed on to me […] It is a Syrena-Grand record (a brand of which I have never ...

Buy smoked bacon hocks from your butcher, the kind you would use for a pea-and-ham soup. Allow 1 per 2 guests. Left-overs and the hock bones can be converted to a soup base the next day.