Here's some food for thought fo today...
- The other day I mentioned the Idaho Potato Museum, and I think they'll be making room for a photo of this farmer in Lebanon who found a 24 pound spud in his potato field this year.
- Mmm... crunchy - why won't the British eat bugs? You'd think people who can happily tuck into a haggis wouldn't be so squeamish.
- You gonna finish that? - an all-you-can-eat Japanese restaurant in NYC starts charging a surcharge for uneaten food.
- Those darned food bloggers, ruining it for everybody - tourists will be barred from Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market where hundreds of foreign visitors flock every day, cameras in hand, and manage to get in the way of people trying to buy sell, cut and transport fish.
- The top food trends of 2008: the war on bottled water, a local food backlash, and Mex-Italian (which is more about the back of house staff who work in US restaurants and not some kind of new fusion cuisine based on tomatoes and garlic.)
- The next trend in bio-fuel - algae?
- And finally, tips on surviving a tasting menu. Wise words for gastronomes everywhere.
