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Sea urchin?

28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal

Page 1 - Of 100 Things To EAT Before You Die

Oysters

Jonathan Swift is quoted as having said, "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster", There are several different types of oysters that are edible out of the over 50 different kinds that are in the oceans today. Oysters are considered the healthiest when eaten raw on the half shell.

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The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America

A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America

by: Rowan Jacobsen

Amazon Price: $8.63 (as of 05/27/2012)

This book is incredibly well written, witty at times and very informative. You can learn how oysters are farmed and their various techniques. Things I didn't even find on wiki. I learned how they get to harden those shells. I purchased some Carlsbad Blondes, and those shells would just snap in half. Terrible oysters. I know why because of the book.

Baklava

Baklava is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of filo pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey.

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A Mediterranean Feast over 165 Tantalizing Recipes from Spanakopita to Baklava

Greek Cooking: A Mediterranean Feast over 165 Tantalizing Recipes from Spanakopita to Baklava

by: Lou Seibert Pappas

Amazon Price: $33.22 (as of 05/27/2012)

And you will also undoubtedly want to imitate the most celebrated speciality of the Greek kitchen--the remarkable pastry called fila or phyllo. The tissue-thin dough is as fine as onion-skin, but creates a tasty foundation for countless appetizers, vegetable dishes, entrees and innumerable pastries, of which the most famous is baklava- a multi-layered fila pastry ribboned with nuts and oozing with honey syrup.

Bagna cauda

Bagna càuda, is a warm dip typical of Piedmont, Italy, but with numerous local variations. The dish, which is served and consumed in a manner similar to fondue, is made with garlic, anchovies, olive oil, butter, and in some parts of the region cream.

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Piral Italian Terracotta Bagna cauda Set

Piral Italian Terracotta Fondue-Bagnacauda Set, Deep Red

Amazon Price: $89.98 (as of 05/27/2012)

Wasabi peas

Peas may be roasted or fried, then coated with wasabi powder mixed with sugar, salt, or oil and eaten as a crunchy snack. Because the burning sensations of wasabi are not oil-based, they are short-lived compared to the effects of chili peppers, and are washed away with more food or liquid. The sensation is felt primarily in the nasal passage and can be quite painful depending on amount taken.

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Hapi Hot Wasabi Peas, 9.9-Ounce Tins

Hapi Hot Wasabi Peas, 9.9-Ounce Tins (Pack of 4)

Amazon Price: $23.36 (as of 05/27/2012)

Wasabi Hot Peas are delicious. They have just enough heat to make your mouth sing. Crunchy like nuts, and easy to digest. As the old commercial said, " try it, you'll like it". And, if you try it and you don't like it, SEND THEM TO ME.

Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl

Clam chowder is any of several chowders containing clams and broth. Along with the clams, diced potato is common, as are onions, which are occasionally sauteed in the drippings from salt pork or bacon. Celery is frequently used.

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New England Clam Shack Cookbook

The New England Clam Shack Cookbook: Favorite Recipes from Clam Shacks, Lobster Pounds & Chowder Houses

by: Brooke Dojny

Amazon Price: $3.98 (as of 05/27/2012)

Ms. Dojny also covers in detail the differences and preferences of various regions within New England. For instance, Maine folks prefer chowder made with soft-shell clams and milk(with a little cream for a thicker base) while in Massachusetts, hard-shell clams called quahogs are used along with milk and flour for thickening. Southern New England features clear or red chowders with hard-shell clams and tomatoes. Mainers consider it heresy to serve 'that red stuff' and you won't find it unless you make it yourself.

Salted lassi

Lassi is a popular and traditional yogurt-based drink of the Indian Subcontinent. It is made by blending yogurt with water and Indian spices. Traditional lassi (also known as salted lassi, or, simply lassi) is a savory drink sometimes flavored with ground roasted cumin while sweet lassi on the other hand is blended with sugar or fruits instead of spices.

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Best Indian Cookbook period

Madhur Jaffrey's Quick & Easy Indian Cooking

by: Madhur Jaffrey

Amazon Price: $10.04 (as of 05/27/2012)

Ever get a midnight hankering for onion fritters, or for a plate of lamb stewed in coconut milk?

Sauerkraut

"Sour Cabbage"

It's so easy and fun to make sauerkraut that there's really no good excuse to buy it from a store. Plus, home made sauerkraut is full of living microbes that might be good for you.

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Making Sauerkraut and Pickled Vegetables at Home

Making Sauerkraut and Pickled Vegetables at Home: Creative Recipes for Lactic Fermented Food to Improve Your Health (Natural Health Guide) (Alive Natural Health Guides)

by: Klaus Kaufmann, Annelies Schoneck

Amazon Price: $6.79 (as of 05/27/2012)

This is packed with information - basically everything you need to get you started.

Root beer float

I think I was 3 years old when I had my first one.

Also known as a "black cow" or "brown cow",the root beer float is traditionally made with vanilla ice cream and root beer, but can also be made with other flavors. In the United States and Canada, the chain A&W Restaurants are well known for their root beer floats.

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Classic A and W Root Beer is made with aged vanilla.

A&W Root Beer. Cold, with aged vanilla. The taste is familiar, sweet... a flavor we all knew just moments after leaving the womb. The can's metal has changed throughout the years, but its inner truth remains. My mettle, though, to sip from it again quivers.

In my hand is a crushed can. Empty, of course, as it has been for three years when it fell half full. I found it almost buried under mud and thistle, barely revealed in the sun.

Until yesterday, the can rested aside the bench near where the popcorn stand barkers clamored their chorus. I met Nancy in line just as the county fair was closing for the season. She was traveling, she said, through town on business, and I was just traveling, though this was my hometown. I never learned which town was hers, or what she did, but I knew she loved gardenias. She had never seen one, but was she sure would if she did. I never met anyone with her quiet smile, and stammered in awe that we might sit for a while. We did.

The heat of August, and the popcorn's salty butter gave way to root beer. There is no nutrition in A&W Root Beer. Just 170 calories and a bit of sodium. Not much more. I bought us each one, and we talked until the light's turned off. She looked at her watch, and ran, dropping her drink. She never said good-bye.

No one has sat there since. Why would they? The fair moved elsewhere, and now, it is just a lot with occasionally mowed weeds. I found it while wandering.

I hosed the can off, now flat and wrinkled but fully colored. "Since 1919" it says in brown letters. Three years is long enough. 91 years? I don't know what to do with it. I never did.

May your root beer always be cold, and your time be eternal.
Brockeim "Playful Literary Adventurer

A&W Root Beer, 12 oz Can (Pack of 24)

Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 05/27/2012)

Cognac - Fat cigar optional

Cognac named after the town of Cognac in France, is a variety of brandy. On 1 April 2016, the minimum storage age of the youngest brandy used in an XO blend will be set to ten years.

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The Cognac Companion: A Connoisseurs Guide

The Cognac Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide

by: Conal R. Gregory

Amazon Price: $79.48 (as of 05/27/2012)

Cognac is my favorite drink and this little book packs so much info. I love reading about the popular AND obscure cognac houses. The pictures are great and I would like to use it as my tour guide for France one day!

Clotted cream tea

Very Yummy!

Clotted cream is an essential part of a cream tea, a favorite with tourists in Cornwall and Devon. It is served on scones - or the more traditional 'splits' in Cornwall- with strawberry or raspberry jam, along with a pot of tea.

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Quick and Easy Recipes for More than 70 Delicious Scones and Spreads

Simply Scones: Quick and Easy Recipes for More than 70 Delicious Scones and Spreads

by: Leslie Weiner, Barbara Albright

Amazon Price: $5.49 (as of 05/27/2012)

Every recipe I have tried from this cookbook has been fantastic. There are some wonderful combinations such as orange and chocolate scones. The directions are easy, the ingredients are usually common items that are easy to find and all the recipes I have tried turned out yummy.

Vodka jelly/Jell-O shot

A gelatin shot (usually called a Jell-O shot in North America and vodka jelly or jelly shot in the UK and Australia) is a shooter in which liquor, usually vodka, rum, tequila, or neutral grain spirit replaces some of the water or fruit juice that is used to congeal the gel.

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Kraft Jell-O Sugar-Free Gelatin Dessert, Orange

Nine boxes of Jell-O gelatin are sold every second in the United States.

Kraft Jell-O Sugar-Free Gelatin Dessert, Orange, 0.6-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 24)

Amazon Price: $34.56 (as of 05/27/2012)

Fun and Sugar Free

Gumbo

Gumbo is a stew or soup that probably originated in southern Louisiana during the 18th century. It typically consists primarily of a strongly-flavored stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener, and seasoning vegetables, which can include celery, bell peppers, and onions.

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Enjoy the Special Experience of Gumbo

The Little Gumbo Book: Twenty-Seven Carefully Created Recipes That Will Enable Everyone to Enjoy the Special Experience of Gumbo

by: Gwen McKee

Amazon Price: $5.48 (as of 05/27/2012)

I've lived near New Orleans but have moved away. This book is authentic. Make gumbo by these recipes and you can't go wrong. I have used it many times and sent a few as gifts. Gives a lot more than basic recipes. A real "how to" cook book.

Oxtail

Oxtail is the culinary name for the tail of cattle Oxtail is a bony, gelatin-rich meat, which is usually slow-cooked as a stew or braised. It is a good stock base for a soup.

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How to Cook the Rest of the Animal

Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal

by: Jennifer McLagan

Amazon Price: $18.42 (as of 05/27/2012)

In a world of costly prime cuts-stately crown roasts, plump pork chops, and regal racks of lamb-it's easy to forget about (and steer clear of) the more economical, but less lovable parts of the beast-bellies, brains, cheeks, combs, gizzards, hearts, hocks, kidneys, lungs, marrow, necks, shanks, spleens, tongues, trotters, and, oh yes, testicles.

Curried goat

Curry goat is a dish originating in India and has become very popular in Indo-Jamaican cuisine. This dish has spread throughout the English speaking Caribbean and also the Caribbean diaspora in North America and Great Britain. It is considerably more mild than the equivalent dishes from the Indian subcontinent and is flavoured with a spice mix that is typical of Indo-Jamican cooking and Scotch Bonnet Peppers

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Getting Your Goat: The Gourmet Guide

by: Patricia A Moore, Jill Charlotte Stanford

Amazon Price: $12.51 (as of 05/27/2012)

Goats have been a major source of food since time immemorial. Ancient cave paintings show the hunting of goats. They are also one of the oldest domesticated animals on earth. Goat meat can be stewed, curried, baked, grilled, barbecued, minced, canned, or made into sausage. Goat milk and the cheese made from it has remained popular throughout history and still is consumed on a more extensive basis worldwide than cow's milk.

Whole insects

Some of the more popular insect and arachnids eaten around the world include crickets, cicadas, grasshoppers, ants, a variety of beetle grubs Insects are known to be eaten in 80% of the world's nations

Eating Fried Giant Water Bug
The creamy belly tasted like scrambled eggs, while the thorax/lung area was a bit spongy. The shell is pretty tasteless and not edible anyway

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Scorpion Sucker

My daughter bought me one.

Scorpion Sucker- Apple

Amazon Price: $1.95 (as of 05/27/2012)

Apple Sucker with a REAL Scorpion Inside
Have Your Very Own Survivor or Fear Factor Party
How Many Licks Does it Take to Get to the Center of a Scorpion Sucker??

Phaal - phall

Typically, the dish is a tomato based thick curry and includes ginger and optionally fennel seeds The phall has achieved notoriety as the hottest generally available dish from Indian restaurants. For example, the well-known Brick Lane Curry House in New York has a "P'Hall of Fame" on their website and will provide customers who finish the dish with a free beer and a certificate. In the UK, a charity competition was based on competitors eating increasingly hot phalls

Curry and spice and 660 things nice!

660 Curries

by: Raghavan Iyer

Amazon Price: $12.50 (as of 05/27/2012)

Every week I choose another recipe or two to try, and each time I get excited about it. When you can have this kind of food whenever you want, it's like Christmas every day. Seriously, if you love Indian food you need this book.

Goat's milk

Goats produce approximately 2% of the world's total annual milk supply The American Academy of Pediatrics discourages feeding infants milk derived from goats.

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Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese

by: Bruce Weinstein, Mark Scarbrough

Amazon Price: $10.99 (as of 05/27/2012)

I can tell that I will be hosting a goat house party in the very near future. If the other recipes are as good as the Spanish leg of goat that I prepared a few weeks ago, I know that the goat meals I make from Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese will have my hubby and 3 year old swooning and asking for more.

Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more

Malt whiskey is whiskey that is made from a fermented mash produced primarily from a malted grain. There is no maximum limit on the alcohol level of the distillation or aging for Canadian whiskey

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101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die

by: Ian Buxton

Amazon Price: $10.84 (as of 05/27/2012)

Avoiding the deliberately obscure, the ridiculously limited, and the absurdly expensive, whiskey expert Ian Buxton has scoured the shelves of the world's whiskey warehouses to recommend an eclectic selection of old favorites, stellar newcomers, and mystifyingly unknown drams that simply have to be drunk.

Fugu

How brave are you?

Fugu is the Japanese word for pufferfish and the dish prepared from it Fugu can be lethally poisonous due to its tetrodotoxin; therefore, it must be carefully prepared to remove toxic parts and to avoid contaminating the meat Fugu has become one of the most celebrated and notorious dishes in Japanese cuisine.

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What's What in Japanese Restaurants: A Guide to Ordering, Eating, and Enjoying

by: Robb Satterwhite

Amazon Price: $7.32 (as of 05/27/2012)

The guide outlines many of the main Japanese foods, a few ways to eat them and some simple restaurant etiquette. The food are named in both English and Japanese, with the Japanese written in Katakana and Hiragana. This is important, as most Japanese menus will not contain an English translation.

Chicken tikka masala

Chicken tikka masala is a curry dish of roasted chicken chunks (tikka) in a spicy (masala) sauce. The sauce is usually creamy, spiced and orange-colored. Chicken Tikka masala has been found to be the most popular dish in British restaurants and it has been called "a true British national dish

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Preparing Delicious Indian Meals without Fear or Fuss

My Indian Kitchen: Preparing Delicious Indian Meals without Fear or Fuss

by: Hari Nayak

Amazon Price: $17.70 (as of 05/27/2012)

Indian Kitchen is a great guide for any newbie to Indian Cuisine, its also a good reference for those who need a quick check list for traditional ingredients.

Eel

Outside of sushi houses and the rare four-star restaurant, most Americans would never think to eat eel, but throughout Europe and Asia you can find it grilled, smoked, stewed, jellied, skewered, fried, baked, sautéed, and even cooked into an omelet.

Consider The Eel: A Natural And Gastronomic History

by: Richard Schweid

Amazon Price: $2.49 (as of 05/27/2012)

It is hard to figure out just why Americans now have an aversion to eating eels and other countries do not, especially since eels are part of our Pilgrim heritage, they were enjoyed by our founding fathers, and they formed an important commercial catch earlier in the last century. Its all very mysterious, but if you read _Consider the Eel_ (University of North Carolina Press) by Richard Schweid, you will quickly realize that almost everything connected to eels is mysterious indeed. It isnt just that humans deal with eels in peculiar ways; the fish itself is full of paradoxes and unsolved questions.

Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut

The first Krispy Kreme store to open outside North America was in Penrith, Australia, in the city of Sydney. On July 1, 2010, Krispy Kreme introduced a doughnut that included the soft drink Cheerwine, which was to be sold in grocery stores in North and South Carolina during July

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Doughnuts: Simple and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home

Doughnuts: Simple and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home [Paperback]

Doughnuts: Simple and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home

by: Lara Ferroni

Amazon Price: $9.25 (as of 05/27/2012)

You CAN make your own fabulous donuts at home. Instructions are simple and complete. I made the Basic Raised Doughnuts, and they were the tallest, lightest, most ethereal donuts ever. I highly recommend this book.

Sea urchin

The gonads of both the male and female sea urchin, usually called sea urchin roe or corals,are culinary delicacies in many parts of the world. In Maine, sea urchins are known as whores' eggs.

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Recipes and Crispy Fish Tales from Esca

The Young Man and the Sea : Recipes and Crispy Fish Tales from Esca

by: David Pasternack^Ed Levine

Amazon Price: $3.44 (as of 05/27/2012)

When a chef writes a cookbook, he or she must make often complex restaurant dishes accessible to home cooks without sacrificing the things that make them great. This is precisely what David Pasternack, chef at New York's Esca, has done in The Young Man and the Sea, a collection of 100-plus simple yet remarkable seafood recipes that cooks at all skill levels will want to try.