Food of Doom

Posted by Unrepentant Escapist

May 20, 2009 -- 2:28 a.m.

Hey, pics are working! The Science Fiction cuisine blogger over at Tor.com tried and failed at making Star Wars cuisine.

I totally want to eat Bobba Fett-icine.

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Urchin adventures

Posted by Unrepentant Escapist

May 8, 2009 -- 8:05 p.m.

Oh, it turns out I just wasn't eating sea urchin, I was eating sea urchin testicles. Cheap sea urchin testicles. That's what they looked like (but it's someone else's picture. Mine didn't look quite that gross, but it was a close thing).

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Oops

Posted by Unrepentant Escapist

May 8, 2009 -- 7:51 p.m.

So I drove 1 hour to a science fiction convention that actually takes place two weeks from today. Talented, eh?

And today I tried raw sea urchin for the first time. One of my life goals is to taste anything that any culture considers edible at least once (or at least the most exotic fare, though even I might not be able to handle "corpse fruit," which Anthony Bourdain compares with "French kissing your dead grandmother.")

Note to other sushi connoisseurs: DON'T EAT RAW SEA URCHIN. Maybe it was just the one I got, but it had the taste of salted, rotting seaweed and consistency of silly putty.

The day wasn't a total loss: I found a book on the Arabian Renaissance, which will make great reading for my novel.

Bourdain eats "corpse fruit" below.

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