Behind the Line
Topic: A Little Bit of Fun
You Are What You Eat (and Drink)
Do you consider yourself an adventurous eater? What's the weirdest thing you ever ate?
- Matt Troost
- Executive Chef
- Three Aces
- CHICAGO, IL
yah, i think so. pig tonsil is probably the weirdest thing. maybe brains. geoduck is the weirdest looking thing ive eaten for sure.
- Brian Reilly
- Chef
- Noodlecat
- Cleveland, Ohio
I use to think I was. More and more it seems like all the stuff form hearts, to brains is becoming more normal. At least for me.
- Paul Virant
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Vie and Perennial Virant
- Western Springs, IL
Pickled scorpion
- Nathan Sears
- Executive Chef/Owner
- The Radler and D.A.S.
- Chicago, IL
I do to an extent. Not into offal so much. I will try anything once. In hong kong I had shark fin soup, no that crazy but I dd like it.
- Carey Savona
- Executive Chef
- Heirloom Restaurant | The Study at Yale Hotel
- Fairfield County, Connecticut
Interested in new flavors and experiences, yes. Eating weird just to be
weird, not my thing.
One of the greatest experiences and somewhat adventurous was eating Ortolan
with Ruth Reichl & my old b...
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- Kevin Nashan
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Sidney Street Cafe
- Saint Louis, Missouri
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> A 15 day balut duck egg that was poached in a sweet and spicy broth with greens. It freaked me the f out. I couldn't get over the crunchy bones. Never again. At least I ...
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- David Katz
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Philadelphia, PA
I guess I'm an adventurous eater. I kinda like to think of myself as just an eater. It's pretty normal to me to eat just about everything, because I grew up poor and Moroccan. In that situation we ...
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- Mark Steuer
- Chef/Partner
- Carriage House and The Bedford
- Chicago, IL
I've eaten horse, but we are planning a trip in february to Vietnam. Planning on going to one of those snake dinners where you eat a live cobra heart.
- Howard Hanna
- Chef/Partner
- The Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange and Manifesto
- Kansas City, MO
My mother is from Samoa, and over there we eat every single thing that grows, crawls, or swims in the ocean. Se'a is a delicacy that is the raw intestine of the sea cucumber. The animal can shoot...
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- Jill Barron
- Executive Chef/Owner
- MANA food bar
- Chicago, IL
in la, i had raw sea cucumber. it was the most repulsive thing i have ever eaten. bugs are easier to eat.
- Cary Taylor
- Executive Chef
- The Southern
- Chicago, IL
Andouillette in Paris. Fucking disgusting. I've never licked an asshole before, but I imagine that
is what it would taste like.
- Paul Fehribach
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Big Jones
- Chicago, IL
Fairly, but not as adventurous as some. We made quite a bit of chaudin at Big Jones in the Spring, which is a pig's stomach stuffed with a forcemeat of the opther organs from the hog, vegetables, a...
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- Chrissy Camba
- Chef
- Bar Pastoral
- Chicago, IL
Yes...kind of...not really. I don't eat live worms or anything like that. I tried to eat Filipino Balut (embryonic egg - like the baby chick is formed in the egg but it is then cooked) but I couldn...
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