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  • June 2008

    • Dear Lobster, I Hardly Knew Ye

      newser  |  Gourmet  |  Jun 11, 08 12:25 PM CDT

      Dear Lobster, I Hardly Knew Ye

      Francis Lam eases his guilt about chowing down on a certain tasty crustacean by creating an unlikely enemy on his dinner plate, writing an open-ended letter to “Lobster” in Gourmet. He's not sorry for chowing down, "for your meat was like butter and nuts," but his conscience is uneasy: “I had to pretend you had done something awful,” Lam writes, “maybe to my mother.” More »

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      food industry  • seafood  • delicacy

    • At Testicle Fest, Visitors Go Nuts

      newser  |  Salt Lake Tribune  |  Jun 1, 08 12:09 PM CDT

      At Testicle Fest, Visitors Go Nuts

      Attendees were urged to “have a ball” this weekend at the annual Testicle Festival in southwestern Wyoming, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The two-day event raises $30,000 for charity as it salutes cowboy traditions, offering guests the chance to munch on “Rocky Mountain Oysters”—known in veterinary circles as bull testicles. “Just think of it as veal,” urged a festival volunteer. More »

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      food  • Utah  • festival  • delicacy  • bulls

  • May 2008

    • Japanese Fight Over Detoxed Delicacy

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 4, 08 7:14 AM CDT

      Japanese Fight Over Detoxed Delicacy

      One of Japan's prized delicacies is having an identity crisis: fugu, the pricey puffer fish that's poisonous unless prepared correctly, now has a farmed cousin that's harmless, the New York Times reports. But gourmands looking forward to eating fugu liver—the most delicious and potentially deadly part of the fish—are being thwarted by the fugu industry, which is fighting to keep a ban on the livers, even from detoxed variety. More »

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      Japan  • food  • fish  • poison  • ban  • delicacy  • fugu

  • July 2007

    • $600 Coffee 'Processed' by Civets

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 13, 07 5:49 AM CDT

      $600 Coffee 'Processed' by Civets

      Move over, Starbucks. Hyper coffee connoisseurs are coughing up $600 for a pound of the world's priciest coffee, a blend plucked from the droppings of a civet, a small Indonesian mammal that forages for fresh coffee beans. Fans describe the taste of kopi luwak as earthy, with a note of rich, dark chocolate, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      coffee  • Indonesia  • Hong Kong  • chocolate  • beverages  • delicacy  • drinks

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