Eclectic Yet Utterly Useful Food News

Foie gras banned in Chicago. Human fat melted away via infrared laser. Tottenham Spurs football club felled by food poisoning incurred at a buffet right before they played West Ham United.

Food news is becoming eclectic indeed. Malaysians from the state of Terengganu have taken and eaten so many giant leatherback turtle eggs in recent years the turtle is almost extinct. This has prompted officials to change the symbol of the state from the delicious turtle to the no-way-we can-eat-Nemo clown fish.

The volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini or Theta that buried Crete's Minoan culture apparently has been accurately dated to between 1627 and 1600 BC thanks to the radiocarbon dating of a "gnarled olive stump," that was alive and then buried under the lava.

Celebrate during May!

National Asparagus Month                                             
National Barbecue Month
National Egg Month                                                            
National Hamburger Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
National Strawberry Month
National Herb Month
National Chocolate Custard Month

Finally, to kick off the week with an amuse bouche:

"I once talked to an old cannibal," the famed anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski once recalled, "who, hearing of the Great War raging in Europe, was most curious to know how we Europeans managed to eat so such huge quantities of human flesh. When I told him the Europeans did not eat their slain foes he looked at me with shocked horror and asked what sort of barbarians we were, to kill without any real object."

( Photo by Eric Limon, www.blacklightphoto.com/)

Comments

[Foodie]

p.s. Foodie is gearing up to celebrate National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day May 15. (Mailings of trans fat-free c.chip cookies gratefully accepted.)

[Foodie]

Evidently it may not have been "dodgy lasagna" that felled the Spurs but rather "a form of viral
gastroenteritis, commonly known as winter vomiting disease."
Ugh.

[Cynthia]

I kind of understand egg month and strawberry month. There are probably thousands of people who make their livings from these products, and they benefit from bringing attention to them. But chocolate custard month? Who campaigned to get that turned into an official celebration?