Food links for the past two days:

On Wednesdays the Toronto Star’s food section appears. Here are two stories from this week:

• Eating a pig from head to tail. Apparently Montreal restaurant Au Pied de Cochon makes a foie gras that’s better than sex. I may be off meat but even I’d admit that you can’t say that about tofu.
• Attuned to fiddleheads. I already decided to try them this year. I’ve started to see them in stores.

Taste T.O takes the Great Gelato Taste Test.

Ed Levine on mangosteens. I almost bought one once. The inside sort of looks like a brain, or flesh-coloured orange (the fruit) sections.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new legislation on food labeling in Canada. Food items labeled as a product of Canada or made in Canada will now have to ensure that nearly all of their contents are Canadian in origin and processed in this country.

This is gross but I have to: Milk chocolate covered bacon. Thank you, Marisa. It almost disturbs me as much as the link to the chocolate anus (that’s not a typo) that Chris posted yesterday, which could have been a follow up to – but wasn’t – Rob’s comment on Sunday that particular chocolates resembled a female body part. I still don’t see it. Continue reading →