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Food and drink sustain our lives so why waste it with bland cuisine? These articles cover everything from Turkish hangover cures to Hungarian dishes.
What started out as a chore became a welcome break. Here are 8 things I bought for my mum from West Indian shops. I love my West Indian heritage. Whenever I can, I claim it above being British as I feel more at home amongst family and my kinfolk. A part of that comes from …
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The dairy delicacy is made exclusively in Sweden by two farmers called Christer and Ulla Johansson. A while back, I wrote about pule, a unique cheese made from donkey milk. Well, there's another expensive and rare cheese out there and it's made from moose milk. Moose cheese brings in the cheddar Christer and Ulla Johansson …
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If you fancy candy with a Scoville rating of 9,000,000, Lil' Nitro is the gummy for you. We've seen people eat hot chicken wings, ghost peppers, and chips with Carolina Reaper peppers. Now there's a new challenger entering the fire ring. Weighing in at 1.5g... Lil' Nitro! The gummy bear is made and sold in …
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Before you get angry at the headline, it's not our creation. But the tea industry is looking for ways to improve its reputation. I don't like wine but I am partial to a cup of tea. I never used to drink it that much but I go through about 2-3 cups a day at work. …
Also known as "chocolate tea", it's also the subject of a Bajan folk song and the name of a Jamaican reggae singer. When I was little, my dad would play a lot of reggae in the car. One of the songs was I Am Not A King, originally recorded by Delroy Wilson. But the version …
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Warning: this hangover cure contains tripe. There is a myriad of old wives' tales describing ways of curing hangovers. But one popular cure in Turkey is işkembe çorbası, translated as literally "tripe soup". Naturally, this isn't vegetarian or vegan but it's not reserved for the morning after a boozy night either. İşkembe Çorbası Recipe Ingredients1/2 …
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Wine needn't be the only alcoholic beverage to reference a "bouquet". Other than windmills, clogs, canals, and Johan Cruijff, tulips are a quintessential part of Dutch identity to outsiders. And thanks to the versatility of vodka, there's a new brand made of the national flower. Most vodka is made from grain or potatoes but tulip vodka …
"Once and future Kottke.org guest editor" Aaron Cohen is an ice cream shop owner in Somerville, Massachusetts. And as an ice cream professional, he knows a thing or two about the cold stuff. He wrote about a researcher named Janelle Shane who trains neural networks. She used these networks to created some ice cream flavours from a cross …
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If I asked you to name the most expensive cheese and what animal it came from, I doubt you'd guess pule. But as the title reveals, the world's most expensive cheese comes from donkeys - Balkan donkeys to be exact. The cheese is called pule and it's hard to buy (you can try the Zasavica natural reserve in …
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Voice actor and cool dude SungWon Cho did the One Chip Challenge with his wife and you can guess how it went. Not well. There's only one thing better than a spicy food challenge: watching people's reactions after they eat it. My all-time favourite remains AyyOnline when he ate the "ghost pepper", followed by the …
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