TKG! TKG!
なんでも【生】にすりゃいいってもんじゃないけど、食べてみたい。
Restaurant food sharing site and app by a team from Adaptive Path. I've enjoyed foodspotting (posting snapshots of what I eat) on Yelp recently.
Roadfood's review of Guelaguetza's specialty dish, "chapulines, sprinkled atop a massive clayuda (a sort of tortilla pizza)." Chapulines are a kind of grasshopper. The review continues: "Although we expected just a few arthropods to munch, we were flabbergasted to find nearly 200 interspersed with chorizo, pork, and Oaxacan string cheese. Once we got over the fact that we were eating insects, the grasshoppers’ crunch and garlicky tang were truly fantastic."
Environmentalists and SLOW food hipsters are creating hunting clubs to get local meat, especially from non-native animals like deer and wild boars.
From the article: "[P]eople who had been given the ratings with 92 or 72 points before the tasting rated the wine differently to those who weren’t given the Parker rating until afterwards.... [P]eople who had been given negative information rated the wine considerably worse than those who proceeded on the assumption that the wine was good. Those who knew beforehand that the wine had been given 92 Parker Points also found the wine better than those who only discovered the rating after they had tried the wine. The information not only influences the sense of taste, but also how deep we are prepared to dig into our wallets: again, the test people with negative advance information were prepared to pay the least. The researchers ... conclude that the opinions of wine critics do have an impact on a wine drinker’s sense of taste. Surprisingly, the subjects did not change their opinion if they received the information after tasting. 'People therefore were not simply trying to show themselves in a good light; the information really did alter their sense of taste.'" Based on a study in the journal Appetite (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2009.02.002).
