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    sybann: "Hello, Penskey's? I need to rent a truck..." more »
    littlebear: It isn't illegal in countries where that is a traditional staple of their diet, like Japan. more »
    Caitfish: ....I thought killing whales was illegal most places? Aren't most (if not all) kinds on the endangered species list? In any case, I love whales, and ... more »
    Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin): Oh Hell yeah!! I am going to Iceland in June and sooo excited to try all the crazy weird food! Hakarl (rotted shark)! Skyr (intense yogurt)! Blood... more »
    TheExperience: I watch Bizzare Foods with Andrew Zimmern all the time where he goes to foreign countries and eats stuff like this in every episode, and I sit there a... more »
    marleyme: Every time I think about eating horse, I think about how that lowers the chances the king of Rohan would have sex with me. And then I remember he's fi... more »
    inabook: Reading about the waste no, want not ideas of food really makes me wish more unusual parts were available at the local grocery stores. I want to try ... more »
    Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!: I really want to travel through Scandinavia, even if I end up eating cabbage soup or sommet everywhere I go(I don't eat no meat or animal offshoots). more »
    ellaesther: I have a sneaking suspicion that there is lutefisk, or something very like lutefisk, involved, as well. "Uf da!" say I! (My Palestinian ex-boyfriend o... more »
    inabook: I recently finished reading Cod, and it has some very cool information on old food in Iceland-- one of the coolest was a shark that was poison to huma... more »
    IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel: I hate that I can't hear (or read) the word 'puffin' without thinking of Holly Madison screeching "Puffin!!!" at Hugh Hefner. more »
    frankie22: I thought puffins were extinct - or close to it - and therefore exempt from sandwiches. more »
    The HZA.: Erm blood pudding? more »
    KiddyKat: blood pudding? How and from what animal? I think this attitude is awesome but I don't know that I could ever do it. I'm picky about what kind of meat ... more »
    MilointheMeadow: I went to a sushi place in Norway and there was whale sashimi on the menu. No, thanks. more »
  • #foodchain

    Locavores

    Iceland's financial troubles have had an unexpected consequence: a revival of the fishing-centric nation's traditional, waste-not, want-not cuisine. This means dried fish, horse, blood pudding, puffin, shark, and, yes, whale. [BBC]
  • #throwdown

    Top Chef

    François Vatel, "the first celebrity chef," set the bar high. Preparing a dinner for Louis XIV, "he was informed that the fish for the meal would not arrive on time, so he committed suicide." [TheSmartSet]
  • #hellskitchen

    The Fame Game: Why Do Women Chefs Get Shafted?

    "Mad Men–style ass-pinching may have gone the way of aspic, but women, for all of their gains in the restaurant industry, are dealing with a more subtle form of sexism: visibility, or lack thereof." More »
  • #foodforthought

    Are Women "Chefs" Or Just "Cooks?"