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Dinner in Peru gave us a chance to try some alpaca. Alpaca is basically a smaller version of the llama. Although they look somewhat like sheep, alpaca are actually a relative of the camel. Can’t say we ever had a hankering to try any roasted dromedary, … Continue reading “Alpaca, Weird Regional Food”
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One of the weirdest foods ever. Fancy schmancy Bazaar by José Andrés in Beverly Hills serves up these squishy, yet oddly tasty numbers. These “olives” are achieved by mixing olive juice and sodium gluconate (?!) and then squirted into water with a syringe.
The taste … Continue reading “Liquid Olives, Weird Regional Food”
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Sweet and salty deliciousness? Crunchy, chocolatey culinary delight? Uh. No. Watch the video below and PLEASE tell us that this is simply a food adventure that went terribly, terribly awry!
Here’s the festival where we found this culinary gem: https://www.gypsynester.com/broom-corn-festival.htm
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We knew Cajuns didn’t mess around with spices, but… Would you eat, uh, use it?
For more Cajun stuff!: https://gypsynester.com/?tag=cajun
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True story: When we asked our Spanish waitress what it was, she mimicked slitting her wrist. Didn’t make it more appetizing!
WATCH US EAT BLOOD SAUSAGE AND MORE DELICIOUS TAPAS IN SPAIN:
For more of our antics in Spain!: https://gypsynester.com/?tag=spain
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In a beautiful park in Belize City, we discovered women cooking up local street food in booths. Parking it at a little folding table set up next to the outdoor kitchen, we proceeded to chow down, and chat up the ladies.
For the full story … Continue reading “Pig Tails & Rice, Weird Regional Food”
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Tapado is the Garifuna´s signature dish (we had ours in Livingston, Guatelmala), a seafood soup with an entire fish, shrimp and whatever shellfish was caught lately, soft-shell crab on our particular day, with plantain and/or green bananas in a coconut milk broth spiced with cilantro … Continue reading “Tapado, Weird Regional Food”