{"id":361,"date":"2006-03-14T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=361"},"modified":"2006-03-14T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T14:14:55","slug":"food_for_though_2-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though_2-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought – The Devil’s Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 15th, 2006<\/strong>: This week on Food For Thought I featured an interview with Taras Grescoe, author of ‘The Devil’s Picnic – Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit’<\/a>. Follow the link to purchase this book at amazon.ca and save 34% off the cover price.  Click Here to listen to this week’s program.<\/a>\"Book_picnic\"<\/a> However, you can win one of 3 copies of the book courtesy of Harper Collins Canada<\/a>. Scroll down to the comments box and tell me about the strangest food you’ve ever eaten.  For me it was live, tiny fish doused in soy sauce that were purchased at the seafood market in Tokyo.  For Taras Grescoe, one of the strangest foods he managed to choke down when doing research for his book was deep-fried lamb intestines. \"Img_0173\"<\/a> They get wrapped around a grape vine before they are deep-fried and are served with a wedge of lemon.  Taras was also seeking to sample a serving of criadillas, or bull testicles.  He had a tough time finding them in a restaurant, although did spot them at a market stall. \"Img_0182\"<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Hats off to Taras for being bold! \"Taras_grescoe\"<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Now, if you are determined to know everything there is about strange foods and forbidden foods, I have two other books to recommend as well as the Devil’s Picnic.  One has a similar name:  In The Devil’s Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food.<\/em><\/a> \"Garden\"<\/a>  <\/em>Follow the link to order the book from Amazon.ca and save 24% off the cover price.  Another book that I’ve had in my collection for quite some time is Jerry Hopkins’ Strange Foods:  Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies, an epicurean adventure around the world.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Strange\"<\/a> This one was published in 1999, so you might have a hard time tracking it down in a bookstore.  That’s right, click on the link above to find it at Amazon.ca.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to reading your entries to the contest, which closes on Friday, March 31st.<\/p>\n

Photo credits:  Lamb intestines and Criadillas, Taras Grescoe.<\/p>\n

Photo of Taras Grescoe: Rene De Carufel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 15th, 2006: This week on Food For Thought I featured an interview with Taras Grescoe, author of ‘The Devil’s Picnic – Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit’. Follow the link to purchase this book at amazon.ca and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}