The 2015 Weird Food Round-up: Two Savories, Two Sweets

I never know where my annual 'October food' posts are going to take me. Sometimes, I find a lot of spooky party platters. Other times, it's a trendy ingredient or a bizarre new dish from a restaurant... this year, I found myself gravitating toward some particularly good entrants into the Weird Food Race in the … Continue reading The 2015 Weird Food Round-up: Two Savories, Two Sweets

The Fearsome Five: 2014’s Weird October Food Post

Every year, I compile a list of Octobery foods, be they weird and wacky or healthful and harvested. Each item may not be brand new, but has somehow infiltrated the headlines, and made its way to my Google-searching fingers. I've shied away from the Halloween-ized foods that otherwise aren't so different from their year-round counterparts, … Continue reading The Fearsome Five: 2014’s Weird October Food Post

Gee, Your Food Looks Haunted: 2013 Edition

In the spirit of both Blogtoberfest and Foodieism, I culled some of this year's stranger food-related headlines for another look at October-appropriate Eats. The $340,000 Lab-grown Burger Recently scientists made headlines by creating a hamburger in a lab that, while genetically identical to beef, isn't actually beef. It's more of a muscle-fiber approximation. I'll let … Continue reading Gee, Your Food Looks Haunted: 2013 Edition