glauber wrote:My favourite ice cream place in Brazil had cheese ice cream. Very nice.
Iron Chefs was/is a crazy cooking program from Japan, where they have this enormous stadium (The Ktchen Stadium or Kitchen Arena or something) and they stage cooking competitions between their champions (the Iron Chefs) and guest chefs. It was huge in Japan, and started being a cult craze in the US. I think the original series ended, but they still show the reruns in the Food Network cable channel.
A truly mad program. Kaga was the over-the-top Liberace-style chairman. There was always a secret ingredient, and each chef had to prepare as many dishes as possible using that ingredient, in 60 minutes. The winner was picked by a panel of weirdos.
There were 4 iron chefs: Japanese, Chinese, French and Italian, named after the kind of food they specialized in.
The whole thing was staged like a sports competition, including sports-style commentary.
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Even though they are no longer making episodes, there are "new" episodes still trickling in because they have a large amount of them waiting for translation.
On the subject of wierd ice cream flavors:
I live in a town once dominated by a Stienfeld's saurkraut (sp?) factory. They make all sorts of great things like pickles and relish, too. Our town, however, was blessed with the pickled cabbage.
Each year, people would gather for a magnificant festival honoring Scappoose's chief export. The "Saurkraut Festival," as it was known, featured artisans' booths, pig racing, carnival-style games, and, of course, saurkraut.
I have to go eat dinner. My point is there was [[[[saurkraut ice cream]]]] there. The plant closed a few years ago and now we hold a "Scappoose Festival." The Saurkrautian culture still pervades it.
edit: is pervades a word? I'm having a 3:00 moment here...
