[Global Food News is a weekly selection of world food news deemed important, absurd, strange, or otherwise hilarious at Food Trotter!]
Scandinavian Street Food: Gourmet Hot Dogs – The Danes are known for their fried herring, lompe, and lefse, but I didn’t know they had a love for street meat: aka hot dogs. [Serious Eats]
Foodie Travel: The Best Dishes On Every Continent (PHOTOS) – Pictures of local dishes from all around the world, from Peruvian Ceviche, Italian Neopiltan Pizza, to the all-American burger. Yum! [Huff Post]
Dream Travel Blogger Job: Get $10,000 to eat your way across Asia – For all you bloggers out there, travel across Asia eating and get paid for it! Contest still open for the dream job! [Gadling]
Hawaii’s Food Delights – Hawaii isn’t known only for its gorgeous beaches and fabulous surf. You can also travel there just for food! [About]
Havana’s family-run restaurants – Cuba’s lack in foodie culture is explained, mostly a lack of available ingredients instead of inspiration. Miami’s little Havana is probably a better choice, join this food tour. [Financial Times]
Lesser-Known Beer Cultures of the World – Craft beer making isn’t just sprouting around North America, it’s happening all around the world with even more unique and imaginative ingredients [Huff Post]
The Tastiest Catch: Dungeness Crab Season Arrives – A great article following Dungeness Crab from fishing, boiling, cracking, and eating. Yes, cheap crab season is here! I’m getting mine today. [Atlantic]
Argentina’s Napa Valley – Argentina produces great wine, my favourite is Malbec from Mendoza. Argentina’s a great place to visit, especially its “Napa Valley”! [NYT]
Pressed duck at La Tour d’Argent – An interesting video of the famous and old-school pressed duck at the oldest restaurant in Paris, France. What a strange way to cook something. [Guardian]
Pairing tea with food – Never thought of pairing tea with the food you eat. But I guess this is similar to wine and food pairing. [Stuff NZ]
World’s oldest champagne still has strong aroma after 200 years – Champagne discovered 200 feet underwater apparently has strong taste. Recently identified as the Veuve Clicquot brand after examining the corks, the 200-year-old champagne was recently sampled by a select few. [Telegraph]
Are the fortunes in fortune cookies very Chinese? – Someone did a stupid study on the text of fortune cookies, only to find that they are a fusion of the American Dream and the Chinese desire for growth. [ Barking up the wrong tree]
[Pictures courtesy of Kalle Bergman @ Serious Eats, Atlantic, and Telegraph]
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