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Save A Cow, Eat A Bug

3rd Annual Bug Fest at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Hollywood, California Memorial Day weekend – you’ve just grilled that rib-eye that only hours before was calling your name through the cellophane while it lounged on a Styrofoam tray in … Continue reading

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Tower Of Flour

Pica Pica Maize Kitchen San Francisco, California It may come as a surprise that some of the most ingenious inventions or discoveries made over the years were not the by-product of countless man-hours slaving over a hot Bunsen burner, but … Continue reading

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You Think I’m Psycho, Don’t You Mama?

Psycho Donuts Campbell, California It would be a forgivable mistake to dismiss Silicon Valley’s Psycho Donuts as a novelty store – the windows and glass doors on the otherwise normal-looking storefront in a tiny Campbell, California strip mall are plastered … Continue reading

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Let The Paiché Bite Cha

Paiché Peruvian Izakaya Marina del Rey, California The fish approaches slowly, methodically – at three feet in length, the torpedo-like paiché (more commonly known as arapaima) is yet a juvenile, but his hinged jaw is capable of wreaking havoc on … Continue reading

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Come On Piggy, Give Me A Ride

Lardo Portland, Oregon It takes thick skin to walk into either of Lardo’s Portland locations without somehow feeling that the name is a taunt directed at you rather than having been derived from the charcuterie offering of cured pork fat. … Continue reading

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