Melissochka

In order to calm my stresses about moving and saying goodbyes, I have copied onto this blog a list taken from other blogs of 100 foods every omnivore should try at least once in their lifetime.  Like most, I love food.  I have strange, sometimes unhealthy, habits concerning it, but deep down, I do love it.  While stuck in Morocco, I have missed some of my favorites.  My stomach is always angry with me here, and I have heard it sing new songs I never thought an organ in my body could sing.  It yells, it screams, it's bleedin' Pavarotti at times.  Right now, for example, I am laying on my tummy in order to shut the darn thing up, as I am only running on freeze dried coffee at nearly 3pm this Wednesday afternoon.  I miss new tastes, and I no longer get that here.  Lately I watch food shows and read about food, and that satisfies my appetite somewhat.  And now I am posting this list.  It's helping a bit.  As soon as I get to Europe, I hope to put my new cooking skills to the test, and reunite with some new and favorite foods.  Here you go.

The items in bold I have tried.  Items crossed out I will never ever consider.  Everything else is still up for grabs.

1.  Venison
2.  Nettle tea
3.  Huevos Rancheros
4.  Steak tartare
5.  Crocodile
6.  Black Pudding
7.  Cheese fondue
8.  Carp
9.  Borscht
10.  Baba ghanoush
11.  Calamari
12.  Phó
13.  PBJ
14.  Aloo gobi
15.  Hot dog from a street cart
16.  Epoisses
17.  Black truffle
18.  Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19.  Steamed pork bun
20.  Pistachio ice cream
21.  Heirloom tomatoes
22.  Fresh wild berries
23.  Foie gras
24.  Rice and beans
25.  Head cheese
26.  Raw Scotch bonnet pepper
27.  Dulce de leche
28.  Oysters
29.  Baklava
30.  Bagna cauda
31.  Wasabi peas
32.  Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33.  Salted lassi
34.  Sauerkraut
35.  Root beer float
36.  Cognac with a fat cigar
37.  Clotted cream tea
38.  Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39.  Gumbo
40.  Oxtail
41.  Curried goat
42.  Whole insects
43.  Phaal
44.  Goat's milk
45.  Malt whiskey from a bottle worth 60 pounds/$120 or more
46.  Fugu
47.  Chicken tikka masala
48.  Eel
49.  Krispy Kreme original glazed donut
50.  Sea urchin
51.  Prickly pear
52.  Umeboshi
53.  Abalone
54.  Paneer
55.  McDonald's Big Mac Meal
56.  Spaetzle
57.  Dirty gin martini (olive juice grosses me out, so NO!)
58.  Beer above 8% ABV
59.  Poutine
60.  Carob chips
61.  S'mores
62.  Sweetbreads
63.  Kaolin
64.  Currywurst
65.  Durian  (if you know me, you know that smell is everything, and I will not try what smells the worst)
66.  Frogs' legs
67.  Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68.  Haggis
69.  Fried plantain
70.  Chitterlings or andouillette
71.  Gazpacho
72.  Caviar and blini
73.  Louche absinthe
74.  Gjetost or brunost
75.  Roadkill
76.  Baijiu
77.  Hostess fruit pie
78.  Snail (Carlos did this one in Fés, and again, I say no because of the smell)
79.  Lapsang souchong
80.  Bellini
81.  Tom yum
82.  Eggs Benedict
83.  Pocky
84.  Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85.  Kobe beef
86.  Hare
87.  Goulash
88.  Flowers
89.  Horse
90.  Criollo chocolate
91.  Spam
92.  Soft shell crab (I will not eat sea spider, thank you very much)
93.  Rose harissa
94.  Catfish
95.  Mole poblano
96.  Bagel and lox
97.  Lobster thermidor
98.  Polenta
99.  Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100.  Snake