Meme part 3
Sharing is Caring:
for one week, recommed / share
Day one : a song
Day two : a picture
Day three : a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four : a site
Day five : a youtube clip
Day six : a quote
Day seven : whatever tickles your fancy
Day three : a book
Award-winning writer Taras Grescoe admits that he has always been fascinated by the forbidden. Never one to deny his desires, he set out on a global journey, determined to track down the foods and substances that killjoy governments have often bizarrely prohibited. The result is a spread like no other: an aperitif ofhjemmebrent, a powerful Norwegian moonshine; a wedge of Époisses, a stinky French cheese that can carry a brain-swelling bacteria; a cup of restorative Bolivian cocaine tea; and a host of legendary and sought-after substances that Grescoe risks health and jail time to dig in to.
Grescoe takes us with him around the world to sample damned food, drink and smoke, along the way serving up a unique and irreverent feast of unsavoury characters and customs. The culmination is a deliciously decadent full-course meal for those brave enough to lay down a blanket, open the basket and partake of the devil’s picnic.
A quote from somewhere in the book which i find complicated to forget: "I tried a bottle of Hill's in Vienna. It look like Windex, tasted like Listerine, and came on like agricultural rum. Overproof vodka, I concluded, spiked with food coloring."
From thoughts about the history of Norwegian alcohol consumption to Swiss attitudes to treating drug addiction and assisted suicide, this book is a must-read, i mean it.
for one week, recommed / share
Day one : a song
Day two : a picture
Day three : a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four : a site
Day five : a youtube clip
Day six : a quote
Day seven : whatever tickles your fancy
Day three : a book
Award-winning writer Taras Grescoe admits that he has always been fascinated by the forbidden. Never one to deny his desires, he set out on a global journey, determined to track down the foods and substances that killjoy governments have often bizarrely prohibited. The result is a spread like no other: an aperitif ofhjemmebrent, a powerful Norwegian moonshine; a wedge of Époisses, a stinky French cheese that can carry a brain-swelling bacteria; a cup of restorative Bolivian cocaine tea; and a host of legendary and sought-after substances that Grescoe risks health and jail time to dig in to.
Grescoe takes us with him around the world to sample damned food, drink and smoke, along the way serving up a unique and irreverent feast of unsavoury characters and customs. The culmination is a deliciously decadent full-course meal for those brave enough to lay down a blanket, open the basket and partake of the devil’s picnic.
A quote from somewhere in the book which i find complicated to forget: "I tried a bottle of Hill's in Vienna. It look like Windex, tasted like Listerine, and came on like agricultural rum. Overproof vodka, I concluded, spiked with food coloring."
From thoughts about the history of Norwegian alcohol consumption to Swiss attitudes to treating drug addiction and assisted suicide, this book is a must-read, i mean it.