Category Archives: Fabulous Foodstuffs
Marmite, Mar Bright
My introduction into the savory, bitter world of yeast extracts came by way of an Australian landscape painter named Mike. I was one of half a dozen guests crammed into his camper one night in the desert of northern New … Continue reading
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Tasty Testes
Rocky Mountain Oyster. Montana Tendergroin. A bull testicle by any other name would taste as sweet.¹ Some certainly think so. While many are made squeamish by the idea of eating bull balls, others gather together in what have been dubbed … Continue reading
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Would I Lye?
A couple of months ago I was perusing an Asian market when much to my delight I found the innocuously named Preserved Duck Eggs whose label is shown above. These eggs were preserved using salt and lye. Other names for … Continue reading
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Now That’s What I Call a Sticky Situation
I’ve always taken molasses for granted. The dark, syrupy sweetener is a byproduct of sugar production. We always had around the house growing up and I would occasionally add it to hot cereals like oatmeal and malt-o-meal. My mother uses … Continue reading
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What’s Made Pewaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)
A little over six years ago I was spending three weeks at an art camp in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. One day I stopped in at the convenience store across the street from our dorms and found one bag of an odd, … Continue reading
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