Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche come from Moto, a Chicago restaurant that plays with new ways to cook and eat food. Among other things, check out the edible “cigar,” sweet nachos, a bleeding veggie burger made from what cows eat, fruits that make sour things taste sweet and sweet things taste savory, and cooking with wild plants.
http://www.ted.com/talks/homaro_cantu_ben_roche_cooking_as_alchemy.html
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.
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He apparently didn’t listen to his mom about playing with his food.
Smart boy… he’s rich now.
What incredible ideas. I wonder if these guys offer a class in what they do.
I also read the comments, and noticed that some people complained that this was just haute cuisine processed food. I was thinking, all food that we cook is processed, whether we dredge it in flour and fry it, or boil it in plain water. Even salads to a certain extent are processed. Sources are important—grass-fed beef is better for the environment, if one has to eat beef at all, as are veggies and fruits raised with few pesticides or weed killer. But the concept of making sushi out of watermelon was the best. I’d love to surprise my parents with that one!
Exactly. Unless we’re all foraging hand to mouth in the forest, we’re processing our food in some way, even if that’s only throwing a hunk of meat in the fire.
One of the food network guys – in fact it is Guy Fieri makes ‘gringo shushi with pulled pork, fries, things like that inside instead of raw fish.
I just heard about a cheese sushi, with chevre for rice, something tangy for inside, a bright orange cheese for carrots… all wrapped in a sheet of nori!