Artichokes are yummy. I just ate one as an appetizer. But every time I eat an artichoke, scraping out the delectable meat with my upper teeth, I wonder - who ever thought it was a good idea to eat an artichoke? Come on. They're really sharp and pointy and before you can eat them you have to steam them for a couple of hours (preferably with some white wine and herbes de provence) and then in order to eat them you have to pick off the leaves one by one and ... well, I've described the method of consumption.

Do you ever wonder how certain things came to be food for humans? Who devised our modern cooking method for artichokes? Who was hungry enough to figure out how to eat lobsters? I mean, really! Lobster is great. I love it. But how do you think the first person to ever eat a lobster actually did it? Have you ever tried to eat a lobster without a lobster cracker? Trust me, it's not an easy task.

And what about fugu - that Japanese delicacy, poisonous blowfish that a chef has to train for ten years to serve? How many people died before they figured out which parts of the blowfish were actually edible?

So, really, I want to know, how is that we came to eat freaky food?

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 6:48 PM