Monday, September 1, 2008

Omnivore Meme a la Abby
This is a list of 100 foods that every omnivore should eat sometime in their life. The idea is to bold the ones you've eaten.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters - ick
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl – A bite in San Fran – Im not big on clams
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea – At the plaza hotel in NYC with Mom!
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects – Wild berry culvers ice cream. The legs stuck in my teeth! Eeww.
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more – Again a sip of dad’s
46. Fugu- yikes, and no
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel--disgusting
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut – still warm, insanely good
50. Sea urchin – thanks cooking school
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi – Japanese plums – I had them pickled
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine – I freakin love poutin! Jan 10 I will be stuffing my face with it!
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake – yes to all 4
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost – the most disgusting cheese I have eaten
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky--Men's Pocky is the best!
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant – French Laundry has to be 3 stars!
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

82 for me! Thanks culinary school!

1 comment:

Barbara said...

Wow, Abby, that's impressive! I don't even know what some of the stuff is.

Love, B