Archive for December, 2011

#102 Spain: octopus abusers of Galicia

Some food fads really need to die. Take wheatgrass shots, for example. I don’t dislike the stuff, but much of the world is convinced that it’s, like, the most miraculously awesome-est thing you could ever put into your body. But once upon a time, a group of six extremely health-conscious business tycoons (co-owners of a […]

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#100-101 Latvia & Finland: angering your cardiologist with pig and marrowfat

  Normally, peas are healthy vegetables. They’re green and perky, and your mom probably forced you to eat them when you were a kid. I like peas and would eat them more often… except for the fact they’re good for your health. That takes all the fun out of them. So it takes a rare […]

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#91-99 The African Motherlode: Angola, Benin, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania

  I’ve always worried that my food quest would fall flat on its (pudgy) face because of Africa. I love good African food, but the continent is home to a crapload of individual countries—54 or so, depending on whose list you’re looking at—and there’s a relative shortage of African restaurants in NYC. Until now, I’ve […]

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