A British foodie recently came up with 100 things every Omnivore should eat before dying. What to try is so subjective, but the list is a fun start. I've crossed out what I've eaten and left blank the one's I've yet to try. I can tell you I'm no rushing out for roadkill anytime soon. Many of the foods are available locally without much looking. Others are more of a challenge (like Black Pudding, which I actually had at Oliveto). What would be on your 100?
8. Carp
9. Borscht
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pea
53. Abalone
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
66. Frogs' legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
86. Hare
88. Flower
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
93. Rose harissa
95. Mole poblano
97. Lobster Thermidor
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
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So far 73 out of 100 off of Heather's list!
Not too bad ... Got some work to do!
Oh, come on, Heather. You KNOW you've eaten whole insects before. You do, after all, eat organic fruits and veggies, right? For that matter, you've probably eaten horse, too (especially if you've done any travelling.) Best not to know for sure, I suppose.
Do try Jamacian Blue Mountain coffee; ii is a treat for coffee drinkers.
Heh. Yeah between my organic fruits and the few bugs i've inhaled while riding my bike I guess I can knock that off too. But I'm gonna be brave and leave it for a purposeful munch. I hear fried ants are all the rage in Brazil.
Heather - I can not believe you have never had abalone! Especially since it is a true Sonoma County delicacy.... You need to put a shout out to one of your fans that is a diver!
Heather, the best head cheese in the country, hands-down, is at Lupa in NYC. But, for a perfectly acceptable alternative, try Ginny & Eric's version (our own little piece of NYC right there in Sebastopol) at Eloise! This is coming from head cheese's biggest fan!
p.s. Stone Crabs (life's most delicious thing) should be on that list!
she may have eaten horse in one of those weekly Panda Express visits.
the veal foie gras burger served at Gordon Ramsay's Boxwood Cafe in London...the most remarkable single food item ever!
No abalone? What the? You’ve been deprived! We need to hook you up! My husband has been diving for abalone for 17 years with his father (since he was 12) right here in Sonoma County. It’s a religion in our family and a true treat EVERY time! I’ll hook you up!
I'll take any extra Abalone too! I'd go diving for it myself but I'm not as strong a swimmer as I used to be and guys my age are dying right and left out there in the kelp.
I have no idea why somebody would put "roadkill" on such a list. Or why you wouldn't have bacon or ham or other cured meats from top producers here in the US and in Europe, or why you wouldn't have famous dishes from great chefs like Thomas Keller's "oysters and pearls". I'll take that over the whole insects, thanks.
There are SOME advantages to being old! During WWII, horsemeat was more available on the black market than the more conventional meats. And Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee was still affordable in the 1970's at Zabars' in New York. It IS special!
You need to expand your circle of friends to some who go abaloneing. Sounds like you're getting offers!
Can I get some of that Abalone to. My favorite thing on earth to eat
Why is'nt Human on that list?
If you like Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, you will also like Peruvian.I live in Peru and we have a number of dishes that are national favorites like:
aji de gallina (chicken and yellow chili bred pudding)
suspiro a la limena
chirimoya mousse
helado de lucuma
maracuya (passion fruit)juice
causa made with yellow potatos and avocados
Some of these you might have come here to Miraflores to try.The food here is absolutely great!
I would give a bundle to find a good place to order Lobster Thermidor. (A "bundle" means what is left in my piggy bank after the stock market takes its share.) Can anyone recommend a restaurant?
what? no BLT? or mojitos? or olives? or champagne? ... something amiss here..
Haha. You've been asking me that for years! I'll have to hunt it down G!