Around the world in 80 cuisines Time Out NY “located and tasted 80 different cuisines, savoring budget fare from Afghanistan to Yemen—and using nothing but a MetroCard to cover the world.” Only about 25 highlighted there. I’ll bet you could easily do the same in Chicago, and you could start just by sampling the markets and delis that represent the many Chicago’s Sister Cities in this Sun Times Article – World chow right now.
Stepping blind into the vodka war What should vodka be made from? “As national experts meet in Brussels in search of a compromise, we publish the results of a blind tasting of vodkas from the EU, designed to test whether the raw materials make any difference to the average consumer.”
Seduction by fig “Now that so many Americans are discovering its pleasures, farmers are sending more fresh fruit to market and developing delicious — and gorgeous — new varieties.”
Minnesota State Fair on a stick. Video on uTube
Frankfurter Crown Roast! From the Make the Mackerel Flickr Pool If you just got on the internet, that’s from Wendy’s 1974 Weight Watcher Card collection, simply the funniest food related thing on the web.