"Shaun aRe" > wrote in message
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> http://netnet.net/~pineaire/Lutefisk.html
>
> And it's all true too.
> Here is some more truth about caustic cod:
> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/ic/lutefisk.html
>
> Ya wanna know a way to do this dish from scratch? Well heretisthen:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/...es/luteing.htm
>
> Have fun and please all - let me know *how yours came out?

I doubt I'll ever make it at home, but if I have the opportunity to try
lutefisk, I will (actually, I can't figure out why people get their knickers
in such a knot about it). Ditto surstromming:
http://www.enat.org/~aribob/fermentedfish.html -- actually, I'll be trying
surstromming before I get around to lutefisk, since we have Swedish friends
who regularly partake during the proper late-summer season.

I probably wouldn't pass up the Islandic version, made with shark, either:
http://www.simnet.is/gullis/jo/shark.htm

A friend recently forwarded to me an amusing article entitled "Some Bravery
as a Side Dish" -- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9687163/ -- let's count down
the dishes, shall we?

7. Spiders -- especially tarantulas, apparently. Completely off my list,
unless I'm dying of starvation. I do *not* do spiders.

6. Sea Cucumber -- I'm not seeing an issue with this, for me.

5. Ortolan -- I'm not seeing an issue with this either; the author's issue
seems to be how humanely (or not) the bird is prepared. I have less an
issue with that than the fact that people have so overindulged that the
bird's endangered.

4. Lunchmeat, particularly "luncheon loafs" -- eh, this is something of a
spurious diatribe against poorly made lunchmeats, versus well made processed
meats. I don't think bravery enters into the picture at all.

3. Hakarl -- Icelandic putrefied shark, as above. Again, I'm not seeing a
problem with trying this.

2. Cobra Heart -- Thank you, Anthony Bourdain. :P I believe I'll skip this
one. Yes, I'd eat snake, but I think I'll stop short of reveling in the
creature's death by downing its still-beating heart followed by a glass of
its blood.

1. Monkey Brains -- I'll pass. Monkeys are too genetically close to humans
for me to be comfortable eating them.

Four out of seven ... I think that's not so bad.
-j