Archive for December, 2012

#125-128 The 2012 African Motherlode: Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Gabon, and Burkina Faso

  Just over a year ago, I looked at a map of Africa and thought: I’m screwed. At the time, I’d already visited—or at least eyeballed—nearly every African restaurant in NYC. But there are roughly 50 countries in Africa, and I had only been able to find food from about a dozen of them within […]

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#0 Kuala Lumpur night market: duck tongue, century eggs, and a random bottle of snakes and scorpions

  As a white boy who loves to travel, I absolutely live for the moment when a friendly foreign host gets that evil glint in their eye at a street stall.  It’s a mischievous glimmer that says, “heh heh heh, it’s going to be hilarious to watch the white American boy eat this.”  Previous evil-glimmer […]

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#0 Eating Australia: chew the crocodile before it chews you

  As threatened in a crusty old blog post about Australian food, I finally spent a month in Australia.  And for most of the trip, I felt a burning sensation in my ass.  I think it was caused by the fact that money was flying out of my wallet so fast that it created sparks, […]

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