Strange Food (and drink)
I am in search of strange and unusual food and drinks. Why, you ask? Curiosity. To try new things, to discover old recipes, to know strange things that no one else knows.
It all started with an old dictionary and a friend...
We were looking up a word, and since it was a very large old dictionary, I was looking at the opposite pages while he was finding the word we were looking for, and came across “Salep”. The definition was something like (but not quite):
I exclaimed “Fox testicles?!” and immediately wanted to find out more about it. Thus started the journey into strange and unusual food (at least unusual or strange to me, if not strange to people elsewhere).
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Wood-Aged Sour Beer: It's Belgian
I had the privilege recently to tour the New Belgium brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado and taste a very unique type of beer (unless you’re from Belgium), a beer that is aged for up to three years in giant oak casks. The result is a very tart tasty beer, similar to a Flanders Red Ale, called La
Monday, June 30, 2008
Absinthe: The Green Fairy
Absinthe is a very strong distilled alcohol, traditionally flavored with wormwood, anise and fennel. It is sometimes know as “the green fairy”.
History
It was very popular in France in the early 1900s, and was rumored to be very dangerous for mental and physical health because of a chemical,
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Salep (Salepi, Sahlab, Sahlep, Sahleb, Saloop) & Dondurma
Well, it’s not really fox testicles, it’s really the root (tuber), of the wild orchid, usually Orchis mascula. Salep refers to both the tuber and the hot drink, which is primarily out of ground tuber flour, sugar, and milk. Salep is a very common winter drink in Turkey. Other ingredients
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