I like some of his work. First thing I did was to check out if peyote grows in the Australian desert. Nope. It must have been something else.
I've seen those patterns on a LSD high. Who knows. Not me.
Our German friends loved the WI State Fair, rows of pigs on spits, grilled corn dipped in a 5 gal. bucket of butter, and my favorite the cream puffs.
Original Cream Puffs | Wisconsin State Fair
The cream puffs looks nice but this looks even better !!!Bacon wrapped Cherrywood Smoked Pork Belly | Wisconsin State Fair 
The cream puffs looks nice but this looks even better !!!Bacon wrapped Cherrywood Smoked Pork Belly | Wisconsin State Fair
Midwest style health food, at least SY can eat the cream puffs if not the waffle cone of coleslaw, deep fried chicken, and candied bacon (must have been inspired by Temakicone sushi).
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Snake and snails, no problem I love to explore especially in Asia. But you must realize that pork and beef (especially the fatty cuts) are highly prized there also. I never touch the above stuff anymore except on rare social occasions, it's just fun to observe.
Food and gathering around a meal is one of the oldest traditions in almost all cultures, increased productivity and affluence has a side effect that items reserved for special occasions are now everyday.
I had a friend years ago who did bow and gun season. He asked me before the bow hunting season if I wanted whatever he got. When he returned I looked at the bag, "that's the whole thing?" Same joke at dinner, the whole thing barely served 6.
not by the average person... beef has to be imported... too costly. And, what they have imported (usually from Australia) is tough as nails. So, its chicken and pork. But greasy duck is popular. Small animals only due to land space.
I only know two people who skinned, cooked and ate a possum ... American Indians and poor people in the southern states of the N.East of America. The lady I live with spent 20 years of her youth visiting and living on every Indian reservation in America and then wrote a cook book. Was all the old-timer's recipes. Out of print but still in demand.
If you think you might want to eat snake... go to Taiwan..Taipai and ask the driver to take you to the famous Snake Alley for dinner.
-Richard
I just cut it down to ground level and then covered the ground with black plastic held down by rocks and whatever. A few plants did poke through and cutting them back and more plastic seems to have killed them. Left the plastic down for two years. Now have a bit of corn, beans, etc. there but will cover things again as there are other weeds popping up.
Seems no water and lots of heat discourage weeds. But once uncovered you do need to plant something that is good ground cover.
I have eaten snake in Shanghai, sorry I was thinking of China where pork belly is highly prized.
I'm surprised a lot of traditional Thai dishes use beef even poor food, admitedly often in the form of offal. Have you ever tried boat noodles? Have a very authentic Thai street food place a few blocks away that makes it with heart, kidney, tripe, and of course the blood.
My favorite dish in China, had this in farm country with real "free range" chicken. I see the Thai share a like for it.
Had a friend do this one night a LONG time ago...
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It's Americanized Thai if it uses beef. but, all over the planet you will find chickens to eat. Not wild or free range because there are too many animals who will kill it and eat it. but in or near cities you only get pork, chicken, and fish. Never beef. it doesnt grow in that part of the world.
I dont eat the weird stuff.... for sure you will get some nasty disease.... like in Northern Laos I saw bat for sale in the open market. I asked the driver if he ever ate bat and he said 'once' and it tastes awful. Most food isnt kept on ice/frozen or even cold and decays before it comes to your local restaurant. If you are so lucky to eat in a restaurant. In Peru Andes.... in Iquitos you can get chicken but not out of the city area... they get killed too fast.
but someone was raising chickens in Cusco, Peru on a rotisserie and that is the best chicken I have ever had. Almost the size of a turkey and slow cooked .... I dont know what kind of bugs etc they fed those big birds but it sure made them taste great.
-RM
Not according to my Thai friends, in any case how is a dish with heart, kidneys, tripe, and beef blood Americanized. Your not a foodie that's Ok, but there is a lot of food history out there.
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When I do I prefer 100% grass fed. People forget that in many places the beef is spent work/compost animals not very good and they use EVERY part, no surprise you won't find that in city restaurants. I have tried that here from our CSA farm, not very good and went to our dog.