Lame name? Oh sure. But Gourmet Mag's Diary of a Foodie, a TV series dedicated to the art and science of food and produced for public television, is actually crammed full of interesting stories and information. For instance, I never knew that Fergus Henderson (the guy who roasts pig heads at St. John in London) is actually afflicted by Parkinson's disease and until recently finding a successful treatment to control his own movements was unable to work in the kitchen at all. There's also quite a creepy segment in which Harold McGee cooks mushrooms with this hippy-dippy natural perfumer and the two of them giggle like Japanese school girls at the fact that said mushrooms smell like "manure" (both of them are decidedly squeamish about the word "dung" or "crap") until they are heated to a certain temperature. Anywho, after they cook these shit mushrooms they both then are then obliged to taste them, and they close their eyes and moan with each savory bite in the most uncomfortable fashion...Hilarious if you can manage to get a handle on your gag reflex.
I'm currently downloading all of the full-length episodes from iTunes (there are quite a few!) so I can watch them on my train commute. I can only imagine what kind of facial expressions I shall share with my fellow commuters when the mushrooms start a' fryin'.
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