Wait until Veruca Salt gets a-hold of this!

I’m obsessed and I haven’t even tried it. There’s this West African berry called the Miracle Fruit and it makes everything taste a bit sweeter. The New York Times just did a article/video feature on it in their Wine and Dining section. Just one berry, and for an hour vinegar tastes like apple juice, fresh-cut limes taste like they’ve been dipped in sugar and tabasco sauce turns into “hot doughnut glaze.” Then there’s the guy who hosts the miracle fruit “Taste Tripping” parties…he wears a periwinkle track suit and dispenses a berry to each person who dishes out $2.50 to attend his mysterious rooftop shindigs. He goes by the name “Supreme” and asks people to just trust him. Wild, man.

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When the cake shop comes…

When Jess opens her cake shop, I will have to invent a magical egg cracking by laser beam machine.  That way I can secure my place as egg cracker in her cake industry that will surely take North America by storm.  But, I would also like to suggest that Jess approach cakes as a daredevil food.  In order to do that, she’ll have to source for the most daring ingredients.  Habanero frosting?  Pickles and Cinnamon layer cake?  Not half as daring as a Yellow cake topped with crushed scorpion toffee candy.  And where, do tell, does one get scorpiontoffee candy?  Edible.com has you covered. 

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BYOB is cool with me

So I became a fan of Baltimore through facebook and aside from finding out that Sheryl Crow is coming to Pazo in March (tickets start at $400! but go towards charity), I also found a list of the “top ten” BYOB restaurants in Baltimore.  Needless to say, our Iggies was right in there. 

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Passport pretzels

I just read about this place where they have top-your-own-soft-pretzel-tuesdays and I think I need to try it.  Passport pretzel, anyone?

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it’s about time for lunch…hm, what so …

it’s about time for lunch…hm, what soup do I get today? Panera or Potbelly? oh the choices…

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