Making Progress on 100 Foods to Eat Before I Die
I’m not dead yet, so I have time to eat a few more foods from the Very Good Taste Omnivore’s 100 list. Since 2008, I’ve chipped off a few:
2. Nettle tea
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
8. Carp
9. Borscht
14. Aloo gobi
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
30. Bagna cauda
33. Salted lassi
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
50. Sea urchin
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
59. Poutine
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
68. Haggis
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
93. Rose harissa
95. Mole poblano
97. Lobster Thermidor
100. Snake
