I know, I know, “who the heck has to try that” you say.  Apparently it’s a thing that people really enjoy. From salted caramel everything to good old fashioned kettle corn, sweet and savory is a blend that people are talking about. And if people are talking about something weird and oddly popular then I guess I should eat it. I got conflicting [...]

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Once again my reputation as the guy who eats weird food was a huge asset in finding this weeks item. Some of my co-workers arrived in NYC before me and found a place called Sakagura that served Ika Shiokara and I had no choice but to rise to the occasion.  In my research into this [...]

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My last egg tasting was a pretty serious miss. While I have vowed to try to them again in case I got a bad batch, I have not been able to bring myself to do it. The biggest feedback I got was that century eggs should be chopped up and eaten in things and while [...]

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This was a target of opportunity for me this week. Eick mentioned this years back and its mysterious appearance on the shelf of one of my favorite beer stores was a bit of kismet. I decided to go with the regular Budweiser option rather than the lite. I am a recent arrival into the world of cheladas. I had my first one ever a couple [...]

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Seems that I have found myself in a disaster preparedness theme. This week I received three modern MRE’s from Wise Food Storage for my continued culinary adventures. My options were cheesy lasagna, noodles and beef in mushroom sauce and pasta alfredo with chicken. I knew that trying all three of them would result in a lot [...]

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When I left you last week I was making this face. With such a delightful selection of food in front of me I bet you can’t imagine which one might have caused such an adverse reaction. Perhaps it was the  Vienna sausage. Not just any old Vienna sausage but hot Vienna sausage. It looked as bad as it [...]

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As the East Coast furiously prepared for the impending Frankenstorm,  emergency preparedness lists began to pop up all over the place.  While all these items fit the criteria, I hope for your sake you are not the poor soul grabbing them from the shelf as the only food left in the place. Zombies might be the better option. [...]

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Who could look at this lovely thing and not want to dig in?   Most people I imagine. Not me. A while back I saw this on an episode of Chopped and added it to my list of things I should try some day. When I saw it fresh on the shelf during my visit to my local Indian [...]

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I took a trip this week to my local Indian market, which I have been wanting to do for quite some time. Every time I try to get it together to cook some Indian dishes in my kitchen I realize how woefully inadequate my pantry is for the task. Shopping this week didn’t help me [...]

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I have been asked to do this one a couple of times and it took quite a while to find it. Cuitlacoche, aka corn smut, aka corn mushrooms, aka raven droppings is a delicacy in some parts of the world and a blight in the rest of it. Technically it is a blight, a fungus that [...]

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