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Tasty Treats of YumSugar

Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:00PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: YumSugar

Pizza topped with arugula. Photo: YumSugar

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:

A 30-minute meal to salivate over -- pizza topped with an arugula salad.

Kim Jong-Il might be fighting against all things American, but North Korea has opened up a fast food restaurant -- one without "imperialist" hamburgers.

Beer-can chicken results in super-succulent barbecued bird.

A Texas woman discovered most of a frog in her veggies.

Tian is a fancy French term for a layered vegetable dish.

A simple summer salad gets a boost from juicy chunks of watermelon.

Gelato or ice cream -- which would you rather eat?

North Korean Soju to enter US market

Posted Jul 24th 2007 3:02PM by Jonathan M. Forester
Filed under: South Asia, Did you know?, New Products, America, Spirits, Liquor Cabinet

Soju, the Korean distilled spirit, has long been the most consumed spirit in the world, especially throughout Asia. Low to mid-level brands from South Korea have been available in the US for years and I have enjoyed quite a few of them when out dining with friends at some of my favorite Korean restaurants in Queens and Manhattan, NY.

Soju is made in the most part from fermented rice, but also with other fermentable products like wheat, barley or sweet potatoes; then distilled an adjusted to 20-45% abv. / 40-90 proof. The North Korean brand would initially go on sale in the Eastern US states and should be available now.

Now North Korea is going to enter the playing field with one of their soju going to be sold in the US, Pyongyang Soju. This is quite rare for products from North Korea to be sanctioned for import to the United States. Many folks feel that products from North Korea shouldn't be allowed into the US or should be boycotted.

Personally, I will try one bottle of Pyongyang Soju if I run across it so I can review it, but after that I won't go out of my way. I much prefer the multitude of premium, Japanese distilled products called shochu to Korean soju. They are just so much better in taste and quality than soju. So much so, that they are now the number one alcoholic beverage consumed in Japan.

Chocolate and Brad Pitt - combined!

Posted Mar 11th 2006 12:51PM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: Chocolate, Asia, Food Oddities, On the Blogs

Somehow, we missed the 176-pound solid chocolate Brad Pitt that was put on display in a department store in South Korea over Valentine's Day. According to Best Week Ever, the near life-size model was a response to the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il's commission of a 200-pound model of Leslie Nielsen made out of olives. The likeness of Brad does not look exactly like him, but there is a resemblance and no doubt the effort was greatly appreciated by fans of the actor. Brad Pitt sounds a lot more appetizing, generally speaking, but it seems safe to say that chocolate will win over more people than a 200-pound pile of olives.

No word on what was done with the chocolate when the display was taken down. It didn't turn up on eBay, so it is safe to assume that it was either eaten or melted down and recast.

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