J-Walk found a list of The top 50 things every foodie should do. Which have I done? Ten of the fifty.
My List:
1) Make toast – heavy crusty Finlandish bread, toasted
3) Dismember a chicken – don’t do it without poultry shears
8) Dive for sea urchins – as a freediver, you can eat urchins for lunch when you’re stuck out
9) Pick your own – did the hippy trippy find your own food thing
13) Learn how to make a dry martini – obviously
30) Queue for fish and chips – living and pissing up as a student in the UK, I became a cod connoisseur
31) Get up early and go to market – any and all of them
33) Catch your own dinner – trawling for Ahi off Mexico
35) Grill a steak – many and sundry variations on the theme
46) Squeeze a fresh pineapple – one of the benefits of growing up as a haole in Hawaii: pineapple fields!
Full List:
1) Make toast
2 Eat the best
3) Dismember a chicken
4) Eat lunch at Le Grand Véfour
5) Boil a new-laid egg
6) Dine at the French Laundry
7) Take a dip
8) Dive for sea urchins
9) Pick your own
10) Eat fish on the Pampelonne
11) Make love in a vineyard
12) Slurp udon noodles in Takamatsu
13) Learn how to make a dry martini
14) Nibble cheese-flavoured chocolates
15) Tread grapes in a laga
16) Buy a turbot
17) Lick an ice cream in Sicily
18) Shuck an oyster
19) Order a Bellini in Harry’s Bar
20) Wolf down a hotdog on Coney Island
21) Poach a snail
22) Eat the first asparagus
23) Order fish at Doyles
24) Be cooked for by a legend
25) Sniff a white truffle
26) Dice with death
27) Eat chocolate cake in Vienna
28) Dine at Jean Georges in New York
29) Pod fresh peas
30) Queue for fish and chips
31) Get up early and go to market
32) Shop till you drop
33) Catch your own dinner
34) Push the boat out
35) Grill a steak
36) Drink a bottle of 1947 Cheval Blanc
37) Do the Grand Tour
38) Go out for a duck
39) Visit Pierre Gagnaire in Paris
40) Bake a loaf of bread
41) Visit Highgrove
42) Take coffee at Caffé Florian
43) Attend Holi Festival
44) Catch a lobster
45) Stuff yourself with caviar
46) Squeeze a fresh pineapple
47) Kill a pig
48) Milk a cow
49) Catch an elver
50) Go for a pee at Felix
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I’m up to 17:
1) Make toast – no Marmite, thanks
3) Dismember a chicken – in Kenya, still have a feather
5) Boil a new-laid egg – in Texas, on a ranch
9) Pick your own – apples for pie
18) Shuck an oyster – Naw’lins
19) Order a Bellini in Harry’s Bar – Dad’s 50th
22) Eat the first asparagus – I like ‘em white
24) Be cooked for by a legend – that short Chinese guy who was popular in the 80s
25) Sniff a white truffle – en Provence
29) Pod fresh peas – my mother raised me well
31) Get up early and go to market – just a few weeks ago
32) Shop till you drop – pictures to prove it, cow’s balls and all
35) Grill a steak – red wine and shallot reduction
40) Bake a loaf of bread – challa
45) Stuff yourself with caviar – and it was free!
46) Squeeze a fresh pineapple – from India to Hawaii
48) Milk a cow – mooooooo
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