food

It is sweet to reflect, as you savour a bar of chocolate, that you are also consuming a little of the ancient Aztec language, Nahuatl. The Aztecs called the juice from the pods of the cacao tree xocoatl, which meant “bitter water”. The Spaniards first adopted and then adapted this pretty word, and the English misheard it from Spanish, as chocolate.

Intriguing linguistic delicacies.

Most accounts of a rock star on tour rely heavily on the trinity of human excesses: sex, drugs, and rock and roll. With every sight and sensation available to a young man traveling the world with a guitar in hand, who cares what they had to eat?

Here’s one for the pescetarians among us. Hmmm, maybe I should distribute this locally…the only way anyone cooks fish around here is pan fried in tons of pork fat. My cholesterol goes up just thinking about it.

Ok, I may be asking for it by admitting that I’m a vegetarian, but some of the dishes mentioned in these environment-friendly-eating books sound good to me. What’s wrong with rutabaga and grated beet for dinner, I ask you? And it’s true, supermarket veggies taste like cardboard! That's what you get when you cross a tomato with a cotton ball.

Did you know that sushi was originally a nasty method of preserving old seafood? Or that the modern-day delicacy was once fast food for the lower classes? Some little-known facts about squished fish.

Maybe we should all live off the grid once in our lives..?