Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2007 post is kept below. What is ikizukuri? Ikizukuri (also written ikezukuri) roughly means “prepared alive”. The chef picks a live fish, shrimp, lobster or octopus from a tank, slices it into sashimi…
Are you looking for a way t surprise your family for the Halloween dinner? Why not try cooking a “fleshworm” as the recipe owner calls his creation. The full instructions for fleshworms cooking can be found here.
Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2007 post is kept below. Meet beondegi Canned silkworm pupae are a Korean snack called beondegi (번데기). Fresh beondegi is sold by street vendors and in traditional markets such as Seoul’s Gwangjang Market.…
Why settle for a Mickey Pizza, when you can have the Mickeys pizza salami? Ok, this was a bit cheap shot, but they asked for it! Available in German supermarkets for all those Mickey hungry kids!
Isn’t this just a dream? Organic bottled water without Antibiotics, growth hormones, synthetic pesticides or even genetic modification. Thank you Safeway! Source: www.treehugger.com
Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2007 post is kept below. Jones Soda’s famous holiday flavours Seattle’s Jones Soda has a long history of strange limited editions. The most famous started in 2003 with Turkey & Gravy soda. In…
Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2007 post is kept below. Meet the gamja hot dog Spotted in Seoul in 2007, this is a gamja hot dog (potato hot dog). It’s a Korean corn dog rolled in little cubes…
Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2007 post is kept below. Wasps, but make it crunchy The crackers are called jibachi senbei, “digger wasp rice crackers”, and they come from Omachi in Nagano prefecture, in the mountains of central…
Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2007 post is kept below. Why Japan is so good at fake food Japan’s plastic food models are called shokuhin sampuru (“food samples”). They began in the 1920s as wax models, and in…
Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2007 post is kept below. Dishwasher cooking is (sort of) real The dishwasher-lasagna joke went on to have a surprisingly serious sequel. Italian food writer Lisa Casali wrote a whole book on cucinare…