Who was the first person to eat _____ and how did they know it would be tasty ( Read more... )

Over at tumblr I got involved in a conversation about taste and specifically supertasters. Some folks were saying that being supertasters made it so that they were physically unable to enjoy beer. Being someone who enjoys beer, well I had to jump in ( Read more... )

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Many of us (reading and writing this blog at the moment) like the idea of local food. Eating food grown locally uses less fuel and builds a connection to the community. "Local food" implies small scale farms (not if your nearest local farm is a 2000 acre industrial food production facility, but I digress) and more sustainable farming practices. ( Read more... )

belen1974 forwarded me this story from September 2006 about a Chinese restaurant in the UK Beijing (I wrote the wrong thing when I originally posted this) that serves up lots of different kinds of animal penises. Sort of a "read it if you dare" kind of piece, kind of entertaining fluffy shock journalism--until they got to the part where they claimed to ( Read more... )

I knew that there were deer farms around the world (New Zealand's are semi-famous) and it doesn't surprise me to learn that there are "elk" (American elk, or wapiti Cervus elaphus) farms in the United states. [http://www.elkusa.com/Elk_Farming.htm] What surprised me is that ( Read more... )