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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I love pork. I know bacon in particular, and pork in general are pretty well played out in the foodie world but pork is good and I won’t apologize for my love of all things porcine. I was wandering around a Latin market in San Francisco on the hunt for another item and stumbled upon [...]

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I just can’t get away from bugs. Silkworm pupae, crickets and now grasshoppers. A co-worker of mine recommended a place called Mezcal in San Jose, California and we both had the chance to make the short trip down there from nearby Belmont. The food was supposed to be excellent but the grasshoppers were the major lure for this [...]

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If you have paid any attention to “health food” in the in the past 8-10 years, then you have likely heard of Kombucha. It has received a lot of publicity over time from proponents and detractors alike. The general gist seems to be similar to other healthy products that have had their time in the sun. Fans swear by the benefits and become vocal advocates and the scientific community gives it [...]

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This is another one of those items that has a legendary bad reputation. It has been immortalized in movies, TV, and cartoons as the go to item when you need something stinky. If it is too stinky for Abbott and Costello it must be bad. Of course I had to test this sinsiter monstrosity for myself.  I actually picked it [...]

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I roasted  a pig recently. From the very beginning of my planning for this year, I had my sights set on the eyeball for an article. You won’t find them on the menu anyplace I know of so I didn’t want to miss my chance. I was thinking about other items as well: tongue, ear, tail etc. [...]

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For a gentile, Gefilte Fish is typically regarded as a punchline or as one of two kosher foods that we know, the other being Matzo. Until today I didn’t even know what it really consisted of. Turns out it is several kinds of fish, matzo meal, eggs and some other ingredients depending on who makes [...]

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