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Plan a road trip to one of these "bizarre" food festivals

Posted Jun 11th 2008 9:03AM by Shayna Glick
Filed under: On the Blogs, Lists, America, Festivals

Close up image of lots of cloves of fresh garlic.

Well, some of the festivals on this list are only slightly bizarre, but others are really out there.

Last month ForbesTraveler.com brought us a short list of some of the weirdest food festivals from around the country. The grouped the fests into three categories: regional cuisine, the truly bizarre, and those "that focus so intently upon a specific food, however common, that they elevate them to the status of bizarre."

The article was entertaining and informative. It piqued my curiosity: I think I really do want to go to the Road Kill Cook-off in West Virginia (even though they don't allow actual road kill). However, you can keep the Chitlin' Strut (South Carolina) and the Bugfest (North Carolina). Anyone up for the Gilroy Garlic Festival (California)?

Mario Tailgates NASCAR Style

Posted Apr 14th 2006 9:06AM by Nick Vagnoni
Filed under: Books

When I first saw Mario Batali's new paperback Mario Tailgates NASCAR Style on Jessica's Biscuit, I thought it was a joke. I got my hands on a copy at a local bookstore today and, indeed, it's real. Apparently Mario likes NASCAR. At least, that's what the introduction lead me to believe, as he speaks of NASCAR fans in the first person plural. The recipes are a combination of American "cookout" food and some recycled items from Mario's previous books. Ham and cheese biscuits and "Mario's Kick Ass Barbecue Sauce" mingle with pork braciolona and grilled lobster with Limoncello. I just don't know about the logistics of stuffing, trussing and braising a pork shoulder in a tailgait environment. Still, I have to give the man credit for continuing to broaden the palate of the average joe. But with Mario's well-known penchant for using unusual meats, I'm a little surprised that I didn't see any roadkill cookery in here. Maybe I just didn't look hard enough.

The Roadkill Chef

Posted Mar 4th 2006 7:59AM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: Frugal Food, Dinner, British Isles, Food Gadgets, Europe

poor little badger.... As appetizing as roadkill ordinarily is, I still don't think that I would eat it. Ever. Surely the 5 second rule will have long since ceased to apply to the "food" unless you were the one who hit it with your car, which is not really the most humane way to procure food. There are some people who have a substantially different view, though, and Arthur Boyt is one of them.

Mr. Boyt eats roadkill. Frequently. In fact, the only time he doesn't eat roadkill is on the occasions when he dines out. He started eating it 50 years ago, collecting it near his home in Cornwall, England, as a way to save money. Now 66 years old, he hopes to publish a roadkill cook book that contains all of his favorite recipes for meats such as badger, hedgehog, rabbit and rat. He has eaten hunting dogs (lurchers), cats, squirrels, foxes, mice, deer and pigeons. A Labrador he once found tasted "just like a nice piece of lamb," though he finds cats to be "a bit bland." His favorite food is a badger sandwich made primarily with head meat.

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