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 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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Ask any Amish and they’ll tell you knitting or crocheting is old school. Its been around since butter required churning. Long before that sexy Cop, Harrison Ford went undercover and turned their simple world upside down. I remember my Grandmother sitting in her rocking chair for hours on end, knitting her way through what seemed [...]

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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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A shiny desert oasis full of strippers and slot machines, Las Vegas is a city known for excess. In Vegas, bigger is better. Yard-long drinks. Sky-scraping hotels. Back-breaking fake breasts. Wallet-destroying prices. You get the picture. Also known for excess: Hash House A Go Go. When I told Eick I was going to Vegas, he [...]

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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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Kids, forget the Fall back to school fashion trends when it comes to impressing your peers. It’s that seemingly lowly lunch box that can make or break your rep for an entire academic year. Clothing is never a constant, whereas that portable food delivery system you’re saddled with, toting whatever fresh Hell your Mom Ziploc’d, [...]

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Heard of Sushi Popper? This “Product of Convenience” has been around for at least 2 years and even if not thriving, seems to still be surviving. So what is a sushi popper? Rather than tell you, why not show you the handy explanatory graphic from the Sushi Popper site: Huh. So that’s um, unexpected. Was [...]

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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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They just don’t make toys like they used to. This “grisly 1840 doll-sized butcher shop with miniature animal carcasses and a floor covered in sawdust and blood” was recently highlighted on Collectors Weekly. Nowadays, many of us are happy to be oblivious and ignorant of the source of our food, but in Victorian times, elaborate models [...]

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