MM in the Kitchen: Kimchi Mussel Bouillabaisse

East meets West as a Korean food icon meets a French one!

The World's 50 Most Delicious Foods

Let the debate begin!

Breakfast Around the World!

Remember, breakfast is the most important meal of the day!  Here's a gorgeous photo essay of 50 different delicious breakfasts from around the world.  Add a big steaming cup of coffee or tea, and we are all set.

Why Does California Hate Yummy Things?

Oh, California, land of fruits and nuts.  First they came for the shark's fin soup.  Now they're coming for the foie gras.  Sure, you can say that these things are specialty items that most people don't eat often, and you'd be right, but that's not the point.  It's about the principle of the thing.  It's also the utter regard for food culture and culinary history. It's doubly also the incrementalism and government interference.  I quote from the foie gras story:

“I want people to have the freedom to eat what they want,” said [chef] Ludo Lefebvre ... “Animal rights people would turn everyone into a vegan if they could. I don’t want animal rights people to tell me what to eat. Today it’s foie gras. Tomorrow it’s going to be chicken, or beef.”

Preach it!  I also find extremely interesting this additional tidbit:

This is not the first time a community has tried to ban foie gras. It was outlawed in Chicago in 2006, producing a backlash from restaurants that, speakeasy-like, served foie gras secretly. The ban lasted barely two years.

Well, well, well.  How people refuse to learn anything from Prohibition!

Quirky Euro Files: Baguette Vending Machines

In France, of course.  Video here!

MM in the Kitchen: Bastille Day Recipe Round-Up

French-themed gluttony!  Vive la France, indeed!  Dedicated to my fellow gluttons Count Chocula and the ever-appropriately-named La Parisienne.  Oh, and add this delicious-looking creamy dessert with strawberries.

MM in the Kitchen: Cannelé

Oooooh!  Add a nice cup of tea or coffee and a good book for a perfect weekend afternoon treat!

Awesome: Carnivore Heaven in the City of Lights

Alternatively, this could be a vegetarian's or vegan's worst nightmare.  I for one, though, am utterly entranced and delighted by this splendid sight from Paris.  I am suddenly ravenous!

Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta  apex predator.

MM in the Kitchen: Pistachio-Lemon Langues de Chat (Cat's Tongues)

Here is a yummy-looking recipe for some delicious French butter cookies!  (This post is in honor of a certain splendid, elderly cat of my long acquaintance.)