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They Make Cheese From Donkeys And It Costs A Bomb

Somewhere in Serbia they make cheese from donkey milk and charge about six thousand dollars a kilo, and yes, that's real.Read More

Bird Spit Soup? People Properly Pay

Folk pay hundreds for swiftlet saliva nests, soak the lot and eat it as a luxury tonic - I tried some and it was dead polite.Read More

Casu Marzu: Sardinia's Maggot Cheese

They let fly larvae liquefy a sheep cheese into a gooey spread and then Europe bans the poor thing; of course I tasted it once.Read More

They Turn Fish Into Wood, Mate

They smoke a tuna, grow mould on it until it's like a plank, then shave it into flaky soup magic and no one blinks.Read More

Colombia's Giant Roasted Ants Are Deliciously Unruly

In Santander they toast hormigas culonas - nutty, bacony courting snacks that make polite dinner talk evaporate.Read More

I Tried The Ocean's Foie Gras And It Was Weirdly Romantic

Monkfish liver is a real delicacy called ankimo and it tastes like buttery ocean grief in the best way possible.Read More
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