MY TASTEFUL OPINION: Go. Eat. A. Bowlful. NOW!
I’m Chinese. I grew up eating strange things – duck tongue (ick!), chicken feet (yum!), duck blood (ick!), cow
Corsino's Busecca
tongue (yum!), fish eyeballs (yum!), pig’s feet & other parts (double yum!)…[wait, do I have a foot fetish?]…so it’s not too strange that I love me some tripe (cow’s stomach).
Corsino’s bottomless bowl of Busecca ($12, an increase of $2 since 2009), a Milanese tripe soup, is my new love. Yep, I’ve got a new fave on this list! It may beat out my first love* – Alsation Beer Soup – by far since it’s slightly less expensive and a lot larger. Size does matter.
Tripe, Beans and Other Goodness!!
The chef at Corsino certainly didn’t skimp on ingredients or flavor either. An endless amount of tender tripe, substantially-sized cranberry beans**, celery, carrots, slivers of meat and other unknown heavenly goodness came together to make a bold, hearty and almost orgasmic experience. I imagined myself curled up in a blanket, by a fire, in a quaint log cabin surrounded by rolling hills of fluffy, white snow. I felt warm. And, even though I’ve never tried another version before, when New York said the beans distinguished this version from others, they were right. Without the beans to provide texture – one that would counteract the sliminess – it would’ve felt like an unfinished painting. With them, it’s a masterpiece.
So, whenever you decide to visit Corsino, don’t just glance over it on the menu or stare longingly at someone else’s bowl. Purchase it for yourself, and savor it as your entire meal.
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*I never actually declared this as my fave when I wrote it, but when people would ask me what my fave was so far, I would always mention this one.
**New York magazine says they’re Greenmarket cranberry beans that the chef stocks up on and freezes to last through the winter, but I have no idea if these were it. They were awesome regardless!
Corsino
637 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
212.242.3093
http://www.corsinocantina.com/home
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Over $10 – These soups should have a gold leaf in them.
$6 to $10 – You’re not shellin’ out the gold, but also not gettin’ super lucky.
Under $6 – It’s your lucky day!
Tynee's SOUPer Journey 
January 28th, 2011 at 7:45 am
I’m a big fan of tripe. wife thinks it’s gross. I guess I’ll have to go try this on my own…
January 28th, 2011 at 10:58 am
haha, lots of peeps think it’s gross. I want to try to go again before I head west. I can’t stop thinking about it. And I hope I’m not hyping it up too much. I know how you like to go against what I say. :o)
January 28th, 2011 at 8:29 am
Are there quaint log cabins in Milan? Do these cranberry beans result in gaseous activity later?
January 28th, 2011 at 11:00 am
I have no idea, and no…or more like I don’t remember. :o)
January 31st, 2011 at 4:07 pm
who changed up the layout for you?
January 31st, 2011 at 4:10 pm
I used one of their other designs, and I created my own header using Paint. :o)
February 14th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
[…] same size as the bowl the guy next to me was eating out of, and said that a large was a-ok. The bowl of tripe from Corsina was just as big! I could do it! I’m a very petite woman with a big appetite, darn it! […]