I've been watching the BBC lately and have seen advertisements for a program titled "Cooking in the Danger Zone". Apparently a BBC correspondent travels to different areas of the world where people are eating foods most of us would find appalling, such as rat.
Today at the water technology center I had lunch with a colleague, "S", who has spent a great deal of time in Ethiopia over the past 30 years, and he loves all different kinds of Ethiopian food. Since the center cafeteria was serving kitfo today, a dish of lightly boiled beef mixed with butter and spices with goat cheese, S ordered that dish, and with a smile of his face. The kitfo actually looked rather appetizing, believe it or not, but still I ordered the spaghetti with a bread roll.
After lunch we ordered coffee and S told me about when he went to Vietnam. He was invited to a dinner with some public officials and they served a few delicacies, such as snake blood in a glass and roasted snake meat. He said the snake meat wasn't bad ("tastes like chicken") but he turned down the beverage. However, the worst dish S had ever been served was in the Ethiopian countryside. He went to a dinner with village chiefs present, so they slaughtered a sheep and tore it open. Then they cut out the stomach and sliced it open; it was full of grass that the sheep had eaten. There was no water to wash it off, so they wiped it off with a towel and then copped it up and served it to the guests...raw.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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