This week I prowled the shelves of my favorite Italian market for something to eat for your amusement. As you have seen I am pretty adventurous eater, and since my roots are Italian, there aren’t a whole lot of things that I have not tried. Squid ink is one of the few. I once had some squid ink pasta [...]

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Durian is one of those legendarily bad items in the world. Every “extreme” food show on the planet has talked about. It was hard to go into this without having my mind made up to not like this fruit. It’s outer shell seems to say “leave me the hell alone, I’m gross and painful” Whoever the first [...]

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Since the dawn of Mankind, when Homo Erectus Hilfiger started sporting stylish fur one pieces, there’s always been a connection between our food & fashion. These days, thanks to our food obsessed culture, we’ve managed to take these two passions to an entirely new level of art form. One that ranges from the deliciously white [...]

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This time of year, fresh produce is making its way back into farmers markets and grocery stores. Asparagus is usually one of the first to show up, fava beans (you hear the slurping don’t you) , strawberries, ramps and of course rhubarb aren’t far behind. Leave my rhubarb alone please. It’s the time of year where [...]

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I have had this taste test simmering for a couple of weeks. A friend of mine recommended Vegemite as an idea for a future article. I figured I would add Marmite to the sampling to help resolve the age old question of which of these often hated items was the worst, or the best as the case may be. [...]

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I have written in the past about being a foodie and the attention, sometimes negative, that applying that label to yourself can bring. One of the more challenging aspects is balancing your love of food with being a pretentious sounding snob. Every time you plan a meal there is a delicate balance between serving the interesting food you want to challenge yourself with, [...]

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OK so no one really has to try these, but they darn near jumped off the shelf at my favorite Asian market a couple weeks ago. I told Eick last week that I was saving these for a rainy day, I didn’t expect that rainy day to come so soon but alas, here we are. Why they [...]

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So I went to my favorite Asian market looking for some kimchee and other pickled Korean vegetables to serve along side my latest round of  Bo Ssam. While I was there, I figured I would try to track down something gross to eat for your amusement. Enter the bucket of tiny crabs covered in sauce pictured below. They appeared [...]

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Pink slime is dead, long live pink slime. As a regular consumer of all things sushi, (except Uni, I just can’t do fish pudding) I have eaten more than my share of  spicy tuna rolls, either crunchy or non-crunchy, as a surefire way of getting something tasty into my stomach at a good price. While I tend to prefer [...]

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Most of us seem content in honoring the 100th Anniversary of the S.S. Titanic’s sinking by catching the James Cameron blockbuster again via its much lauded 3-D re-release double dip in theaters. But this is only the tip of a very lucrative iceberg. Centennial celebrators are booking flights to Nova Scotia, Canada to take part [...]

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