Heavenly food...
I’ve not had a lot of computer time recently, what with one thing and another, but I did see elance’s food meme, which got me thinking. First off, here’s my version of the list (you bold the ones you’ve eaten, italicise the ones you don’t like):
01. Alligator
02. American diner breakfast
03. Australian meat pie
04. Barbecue
05. Barramundi
06. Burgers
07. Caviar
08. Cheesecake
09. Chinese food
10. Chocolate
11. Clam chowder (Manhattan style)
12. Cornish Pasty
13. Crab
14. Cream tea
15. Curry
16. Durian fruit
17. Fresh fish
18. Greek food
19. Guinea pig
20. Haggis
21. Ice cream
22. Jerk chicken/pork (but I have had jerk beef)
23. Kangaroo
24. Kebab
25. Lamb Kebab
26. Lobster
27. Mango
28. Mexican food
29. Moreton Bay Bugs
30. Mussels
31. Octopus
32. Oysters
33. Paella
34. Pancakes
35. Pasta
36. Pizza
37. Prawns
38. Reindeer
39. Ribs
40. Roast beef
41. Salmon
42. Sandwiches
43. Scallops
44. Shark
45. Squid
46. Steak
47. Sushi
48. Tapas
49. Thai food
50. Venison
I think I may have had clam chowder in an American restaurant in London (can’t remember the name of it, it was just south of Oxford Street sometime around 1984-87) but I’m not sure, and if I did I don’t know if it was “Manhattan style”, so I have left that unbolded. I don’t know what these items are: barramundi, Moreton Bay bugs, Durian fruit.
I think I’d have put the list together slightly differently. For instance, it’s not too unreasonable to have, say, “Greek food” as an option, but “Chinese food” just covers so much ground. At the very least, I’d want to give Szechuan cuisine a separate listing. “Curry”, too, is too broad a term, assuming we’re talking about Indian (including Pakistani and Bangladeshi) food and not the dish created by the British. North and South Indian cooking are quite different - South Indian vegetarian cooking is something worth trying. Unfortunately there are no South Indian restuarants in Glasgow, but the Ann Purna in Edinburgh is pretty good; if you can get to London, Drummond Street near Euston has Chutneys, the Diwana and Ravi Shankar’s - yum. South Indian dishes worth trying are patra, alloo papra chaat, bel phuri, and dosas. The more well-known North Indian cuisine is good, too, and I think I’d have listed pakora, tandoori-cooked meat, and rogan josh. Well worth a separate mention, too, is mutter paneer - peas and Indian “cottage cheese” - not remotely like British cottage cheese.
I’d also be tempted to list mince pies (as we always used to call them, but now they’re becoming known as “scotch pies” even in Scotland!) - which should be made with minced mutton; fish & chips bought in a fishing port; fried potato scones; bread & butter pudding; spicy bratwurst; sashimi; kerela; and a Middle Eastern appetiser whose name I can’t remember (fils-fils??) but which is made like this:
Take a big jar. Fill it about half-full with good olive oil, adding the juice of a lemon. Take a mixture of hot red and green chillies. Chop them up, discarding only the stalks, and put them in the jar, filling the jar; add more olive oil to just cover the chillies. Put the jar in a cupboard for a couple days or so. Serve in a bowl, eat with pitta bread and accompany with illegally distilled alcohol - or, if in a country where you can buy alcohol legally, with chilled, good vodka. ;o)
01. Alligator
02. American diner breakfast
03. Australian meat pie
04. Barbecue
05. Barramundi
06. Burgers
07. Caviar
08. Cheesecake
09. Chinese food
10. Chocolate
11. Clam chowder (Manhattan style)
12. Cornish Pasty
13. Crab
14. Cream tea
15. Curry
16. Durian fruit
17. Fresh fish
18. Greek food
19. Guinea pig
20. Haggis
21. Ice cream
22. Jerk chicken/pork (but I have had jerk beef)
23. Kangaroo
24. Kebab
25. Lamb Kebab
26. Lobster
27. Mango
28. Mexican food
29. Moreton Bay Bugs
30. Mussels
31. Octopus
32. Oysters
33. Paella
34. Pancakes
35. Pasta
36. Pizza
37. Prawns
38. Reindeer
39. Ribs
40. Roast beef
41. Salmon
42. Sandwiches
43. Scallops
44. Shark
45. Squid
46. Steak
47. Sushi
48. Tapas
49. Thai food
50. Venison
I think I may have had clam chowder in an American restaurant in London (can’t remember the name of it, it was just south of Oxford Street sometime around 1984-87) but I’m not sure, and if I did I don’t know if it was “Manhattan style”, so I have left that unbolded. I don’t know what these items are: barramundi, Moreton Bay bugs, Durian fruit.
I think I’d have put the list together slightly differently. For instance, it’s not too unreasonable to have, say, “Greek food” as an option, but “Chinese food” just covers so much ground. At the very least, I’d want to give Szechuan cuisine a separate listing. “Curry”, too, is too broad a term, assuming we’re talking about Indian (including Pakistani and Bangladeshi) food and not the dish created by the British. North and South Indian cooking are quite different - South Indian vegetarian cooking is something worth trying. Unfortunately there are no South Indian restuarants in Glasgow, but the Ann Purna in Edinburgh is pretty good; if you can get to London, Drummond Street near Euston has Chutneys, the Diwana and Ravi Shankar’s - yum. South Indian dishes worth trying are patra, alloo papra chaat, bel phuri, and dosas. The more well-known North Indian cuisine is good, too, and I think I’d have listed pakora, tandoori-cooked meat, and rogan josh. Well worth a separate mention, too, is mutter paneer - peas and Indian “cottage cheese” - not remotely like British cottage cheese.
I’d also be tempted to list mince pies (as we always used to call them, but now they’re becoming known as “scotch pies” even in Scotland!) - which should be made with minced mutton; fish & chips bought in a fishing port; fried potato scones; bread & butter pudding; spicy bratwurst; sashimi; kerela; and a Middle Eastern appetiser whose name I can’t remember (fils-fils??) but which is made like this:
Take a big jar. Fill it about half-full with good olive oil, adding the juice of a lemon. Take a mixture of hot red and green chillies. Chop them up, discarding only the stalks, and put them in the jar, filling the jar; add more olive oil to just cover the chillies. Put the jar in a cupboard for a couple days or so. Serve in a bowl, eat with pitta bread and accompany with illegally distilled alcohol - or, if in a country where you can buy alcohol legally, with chilled, good vodka. ;o)