"Goldschläger" news and stories

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

• Hard-boiled, farm-fresh eggs are harder to peel.
• Moving past a prestigious academic career, Goldschlager is a gold-medal winner in the Cocktail Olympics.
• Daikon radishes are fresh and eager to take the field.
• Continue celebrating the Year of the Tiger by making chicken with broccoli.
• Do you have what it takes to win a medal in the Olympic Food Fact event?
• The fudgy Nanaimo Bar shouldn't be kept a Canadian secret.
• Like some folks collect snow globes or baseball cards, do you collect recipes?

Disposable chopsticks have never been thought of glamorous. And there's almost always a problem getting the wooden utensils to break cleanly at the seam. Despite their decidedly downscale image, one Japanese company has given the sticks a luxe makeover. No, they haven't been iced out by Jacob the Jeweler. Kinbashi Gold Chopsticks have a small amount of edible gold leaf between their tips. Crack them apart and even the lamest takeout sushi becomes a grand affair. Well, not really, but at least you'll have gold leaf falling on top of your lame sushi. At ¥4,515, or $40 for two five-packs, they're not terribly expensive. Nevertheless, I fail to see the point. Then again I've never quite understood Goldschläger either.

[via Trends in Japan]

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