Eating Goat’s Head not the Scrap
By From the Skop and not the scrapple, a goat head never looked good to the ethnic communities in Nigeria. However, fragmented pieces of the goat or the cow’s head are fine for them, few can relish the brain, eye, ear and tongue on a single plate and for few it is impossible in Nigeria…same here. […]
Donkey’s Milk gives life…
With the confessions of world’s oldest woman, Maria Esther de Capovilla about donkey’s milk, it has apparently added another contender to cow’s milk, followed by camel milk. Facts provided by the owner of Belgium’s only donkey milk farm at Asinerie du Pays des Collines at the Chateau des Mottes point out that donkey’s milk is […]
Chitterlings: Feeding on inedible scrap
Chitterlings or chichirrones in the Southern part of the United States is the weirdest food that I have come across in the North American continent. Why call the Japanese cuisine the weirdest, even in Latin America they eat pork’s intestines. However, Chitterlings are traditionally prepared during the holiday season and are eaten with a larger […]
Blood pudding for breakfast
This 18th century blood pudding of the Acadian cuisine surprises me much. The blood pudding that is supposed to be the greatest creation of civilized society is made by coagulating the blood of a hog. I could have been at ease after finding it in an Eskimo’s bowl rather than in a sophisticated English breakfast. […]
Bird’s nest? No, a bowlful of soup!
Call it “white gold”, “caviar of the East” or a delicious broth, fact remains that the Swiftlet birds nest have been harvested at homes and restaurants and wherever they possibly could, for the past two years, for serving them as soups in the restaurants. In the breeding season, all the Swiftlets secrete a special kind […]
Beetroot is the boss in Australian kitchen
Beetroot is the boss in the Australian kitchen. Australian boarders in Canada find it weird to eat a burger without beet slices and vice versa. A typical Australian burger has to have beetroot slices and eggs. Beetroots are not sauteed like carrots nor is it simply folded with salad plants, in Australia here, tins of […]
Ants: Crunchy-munchies
Ants are also edible. If you have any doubts about this read this…In Columbia ants are roasted and fried for snacks. The queen ants are relished at royal banquets in Columbia, I am not joking. These species are quite crunchy and are rolled into a paper to eat at snack time, just as they eat […]
Airag: Milk ‘n’ cheese from the stable
If you think that the cows and buffaloes are the only cheese makers, then you had better think again. Airag, the traditional beverage of Central Asia is made out of fermented mare’s milk. This beverage was formulated by the Tatars and was first made from the Tatars horses and yeast. Later on Mongolian herd-people made […]
Announcing Series on Mouth Watering Desserts Around The Globe
I am on with yet another Series on Mouth Watering Desserts Around The Globe. This series is in response to the love and appreciation the blogging community has given me for my Weird Food Series and through my upcoming series on desserts I just want to convey them that their wait for another series is […]
Witchetty grub – I like eating worms…I am not an Australian
There has been a lot of aboriginal influence on Australia cuisine, which might seem weird to some, yea to a certain extent eating witchetty grubs seems a bit weird to me. Witchetty grub is white and its head is black and yellow, with the length of 12cm long and a width of 3 cm. It […]