No, it isn’t your imagination. Airline food really is quite tasteless. This is not because it actually is without taste but because your taste buds are dulled by high altitude and the cabin pressure, so food that probably would have been perfectly acceptable if it were eaten with your feet on the ground loses flavour… Read More »
Over the weekend, I went to watch Ratatouille, another great animation from the director of The Incredibles. In my opinion, this is probably the best integration of plot and theme by Pixar, since its own integration with Disney. The part toward the end where food critic Anton Ego takes a bite of Rémy’s ratatouille is… Read More »
After the naked sushi debacle, here’s something more palatable:
The Japanese are not only capable of coming up with crazy inventions, they also have a weird taste for food. Just when you thought Nyotaimori (the Japanese art of eating dead, uncooked fish off of a naked woman’s body) is bad enough, along comes another way of eating that’s fraught with moral compunctions of cannibalism.… Read More »
A brewery in Hokkaido, Japan has succeeded in producing a low-malt beer using milk. The idea, which came from the son of a liquor store manager, was suggested to help use up surplus milk produced by local farmers in Nakashibetsu. Called “Bilk” (Beer+Milk), the new drink reportedly has a fruity flavour, which the brewers hope… Read More »