South Nigeria,SOUTH AFRICA
From the Skop and not the scrapple, a goat head never looked good to the ethnic communities in Nigeria. However, fragmented pieces of the goat or the cow’s head are fine for them, few can relish the brain, eye, ear and tongue.
Kenya, Nigeria, SOUTH AFRICA
Have you ever preyed on termites? I have not, believe me it is weird. In Africa sexy termites, I mean the reproductive forms of termites are usually caught for food. Entomophagy or insect eating as called in sophisticated…
Australia, OCEANIA
Beetroot is the boss in the Australian kitchen. Australian boarders in Canada find it weird to eat a burger without beet slices and vice versa. A typical Australian burger has to have beetroot slices and eggs. Beetroots are not…
Australia, OCEANIA
Kangaroo is the national animal of Australia, ok a silly piece of information…but how many of you know that it is not farmed but hunted for meat . Snakes, crocodiles, lizards and kangaroos were eaten by the aborigines and later on,
Australia, OCEANIA
There has been a lot of aboriginal influence on Australia cuisine, which might seem weird to some, yea to a certain extent eating witchetty grubs seems a bit weird to me.
Witchetty grub is white and its head is black and yellow, with.
Australia, OCEANIA
Butter, cheese and the likes of it are less known spreads in Australia. Vegemite is the favorite spread for sandwiches, rolls, and is used in Australian Barbie or ‘barbecue’. This blackish-brown spread is made from brewer’s yeast a…
Scotland, EUROPE
I have just written a post on cooking with the stomach linings; this one is cooking in the sheep’s stomach. This is the weirdest delicacy in the European continent. It is Haggis the National dish of Scotland.
Though Haggis…
France, EUROPE
The European cuisine is obsessed with offal. I have just written a post on one and here I am with Tripe. Tripe is made from the first three linings of a cow’s stomach. You call this edible offal! The three edible layers are the rumen…
Spain, Poland, Russia, EUROPE
What about lotus in a standing pool? No, I am talking not going to explain this to you, but I would really elaborate on why I got amazed at the very fact that in Eastern Europe, cow’s intestines are filled with good stuff,.
Germany, EUROPE
Schmaltz spread is the answer to butter and cheese. Schmaltz is derived from the German word schmelzen, which means to melt. Here we are melting lard and tallow. This has been brought to the American English by the Yiddish speaking…
