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Shrimp Toast recipe
Shrimp toast has become one of my favorite things. I first discovered shrimp toast at an amazing restaurant here in LA called Son of A Gun . I’ve been hooked ever since.
With Thanksgiving as an excuse (and still flushed with the success of his DIY KFC ), Tim Hayward deep fries a whole turkey in a vat of oil using a propane gas burner, a coat-hanger and a saucepan lid. This process, popular in the United States, reduces the cooking time to about 45 minutes for a family-sized bird and guarantees crispy skin and a moist interior • This is a potentially dangerous procedure.
How to deep fry a turkey - video | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Larvae of the misleadingly named mealworm. Known to infest bakeries and granaries when not being cooked up for adventurous diners Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian
Edible insects (and arachnids) - in pictures | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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Heaving with heavy goods, the A67 from Eindhoven barrels through the flat, featureless fields of the south-eastern Netherlands on its way to the German border. On a frozen December morning, nothing very much moves beyond the road's edge; a horse stamps at a trough, a tractor pushes along a narrow track. Every half mile or so, behind a stand of poplars, a neat brick farmhouse - raked gravel drive, lace curtains at the windows - slides into view. Next to it is a large, windowless and vaguely ominous shed, the size, perhaps, of a small aircraft hangar. It will hold, almost certainly, several hundred pigs. In a country famed for the unnatural feats of its intensive farming sector (the Netherlands occupies less than one-thousandth of the world's surface, but is its third largest exporter of agricultural produce), this area, known as De Peel, is more densely populated with pigs than anywhere else on the planet.
The price of bacon: Jon Henley investigates industrial-scale pig
Weird Food & Strange Food from Around the World
Weird Food is a list of odd things that people eat. Every culture invents a food that is weird or disgusting to outsiders. These strange foods are cultural markers to show who's a member (insiders like it) and who's not a member (outsiders hate it.) Maybe a kid ate first it on a dare.
We were born before television, before penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. We were born before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams, and ball-point pens; before dishwashers, tumble dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip dry clothes....... We got married first and then lived together. We thought "fast food" was what you ate in Lent, a "Big Mac" was an oversized raincoat, and "crumpet" was what you had for tea. We existed before house husbands, computer dating, dual careers, when a "meaningful relationship" meant getting along with your cousins, and "sheltered accommodation" was where you waited for the bus. We had never heard of FM radio, tape decks, word processors, yogurt, pizzas, or young men wearing earrings.
I just followed the connection you made to one of my peals, and discovered your wonderful pearl tree. It is growing beautifully, and I love the way you have organised it. I have not really begun to explore it properly, but just wanted to let you know my eyes lit up upon seeing it. I have not picked anything yet, but I hope to later. by megavolt May 22