jellied dishes were foods of the elite, served as elaborate molded centerpieces on the tables of nobility

My sides went into orbit. In the meantime, I’ve been calling a traditional version of this dish by an expression that means skinflint through my whole life. (It’s cow feet, cow stomach, sausages, chickpeas, vegs. It tastes way better than it sounds like, but it’s rather laborious.)

But even here in my chunk of South America this dish fell into a bit of disuse. My grandpa would eat it cold, and people wouldn’t raise an eyebrow; when I do it, people go “eeeew, reheat it first”.

From my memory Gastropod had an episode on this. Incredible podcast btw