Taiwan Day 1

...industry. Lunch was a slow, fancy affair. We were served a strawberry/melon juice, a crab meat/sea urchin jello kind of thing, bruschetta, shrimp and scallop appetizer, tomato-scallop consomme(sp?), and then halibut or ...views of rising steam from a distant valley where people went to cook eggs in especially hot waters. We hung out there for 2 hours or so...

Yesterday, my chef gave me all the leftover sea urchin mayonnaise I made and served at a party last night. This is about $50 worth, just because of the sea urchin in it. Wow! I know it's still good today, because it has never been out of .... Note that there are NO preservatives. This mayo is made with eggs and oil and I whisked it by hand and everything. Yeah, ...

The Omnivore’s Hundred

...’s Hundred: 1. Venison 2. Nettle tea 3. Duck Eggs 4. Steak tartare 5. Alligator 6. Black pudding 7. .... Fugu 47. Chicken tikka massla 48. Eel 49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnur 50. Sea urchin 51. Prickly pear 52. Umeboshi 53. Abalone 54. Paneer 55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal...79. Lapsang souchong 80. Bellini 81. Tom yum 82. Eggs Benedict 83. Pocky 84. Tasting menu at a three-...

... to sushi like a fish to water. I think she loved everything from eel to octopus - maybe not the edamame or agadashi tofu, but spicy mussel soup and sea urchin eggs were huge hits. She walked out as if she'd had an culinary epiphany. Unfortunately, due to what followed, it looks like she may have a shellfish ...

Ko Samui

...that can be gathered with a minimum of fuss. This includes seafood such as sea urchin eggs and octopus, fresh herbs, the island's ubiquitous coconuts, and even a kind of local...specialties such as yam khai hoy men, a 'salad' of sea urchin roe, or tom som waay, a sour soup ...by the word weed by offering an obscure kind of sea anemone. Here the anemone, known locally as het loop, ...

Too Many Happenings for One Title

...about so many things in this world. A few things I learned today: My left eye is the dominant eye . Sea urchin has the safest sex: the guys release the sperm to the ocean and girls release the eggs into the ocean as well. Then, the eggs and sperms are on their own. Feeling cold and warm is pretty much an illusion from the brain....

... so impressive as their rep makes them; I prefer our local Price Chopper for glazed doughnuts) 50. Sea urchin 51. Prickly pear 52. Umeboshi 53. Abalone 54. Paneer 55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (I worked ... 78. Snail 79. Lapsang souchong 80. Bellini 81. Tom yum 82. Eggs Benedict 83. Pocky 84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant ...

Food Meme!

... so impressive as their rep makes them; I prefer our local Price Chopper for glazed doughnuts) 50. Sea urchin 51. Prickly pear 52. Umeboshi 53. Abalone 54. Paneer 55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (I worked ...78. Snail 79. Lapsang souchong 80. Bellini 81. Tom yum 82. Eggs Benedict 83. Pocky 84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant ...

Food meme

...£60/$120 or more 46. Fugu 47. Chicken tikka masala 48. Eel 49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut 50. Sea urchin (WHAT? I don't think these are even edible!) 51. Prickly pear 52. Umeboshi 53. Abalone 54. ...(I might have, I'm not sure.) 80. Bellini 81. Tom yum 82. Eggs Benedict 83. Pocky (SQUEEEEE! I *LOVE* POCKY!) 84. Tasting menu at a ...

Food 100

.... Fugu 47. Chicken tikka masala 48. Eel 49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut 50. Sea urchin 51. Prickly pear 52. Umeboshi 53. Abalone 54. Paneer 55. McDonald’s Big Mac ...79. Lapsang souchong 80. Bellini 81. Tom yum 82. Eggs Benedict 83. Pocky 84. Tasting menu at a three-...