Don’t drink the liquid nitrogen…!
A BRITISH teenager has had her stomach surgically removed to save her life after drinking a cocktail made with liquid nitrogen. According to The Guardian, Gaby Scanlon was celebrating her 18th birthday at Oscar’s Wine Bar in Lancaster when she allegedly drank what’s called a Pornstar Martini.
According to a cache of Oscar’s Facebook page (the page has since been pulled), the drink, which is no longer available, consists of “passion fruit, Cartel (vanilla vodka) and pineapple juice, with the bonus of a shot of Moet and Chanson!! It’s AMAZING! All for £8:95 and also liquid nitrogen, to create a smoky effect”.
The teen somehow managed to ingest some of the liquid nitrogen which caused a perforation in her stomach lining. She was immediately hospitalised and is now recovering from surgery.
Bugs, Noma and school lunches
THE world’s best chef from the world’s best restaurant, René Redzepi, brought samples of foraged food to an interview in New York from his restaurant for the audience: rose hips, fermented and dried mushrooms, paste of wood ants, and a fish sauce-like brew made from “piles and piles of corpses of crickets.”
Eater.com reported that, “Unsurprisingly, the conversation largely covered Redzepi’s famed foraging and use of local Danish insects, but he also talked about a new book he’s working on.” No it’s not about the wonderful world of Michelin dishes – it’s about making lunches for your kids.
Redzepi did share some things. Here are just a few, eater.com has the full interview.
On the evolution of Noma: “Within a few years, it stopped making sense, this 85-hour work week where you’re constantly cooking somebody else’s ideas or ways of looking at food. And that’s when ‘Time and Place’ started and that became the core of everything we do now.”
On bugs: “I know it’s taboo to eat bugs in the Western world, but why not, when it adds letters to your vocabulary? … You go to Southeast Asia and this is a common thing. You read about it from all over the world, that people are eating bugs. Of course, we eat things from bugs as well. Most of it we don’t know – a worm, a mushroom. If you like mushrooms, you’ve eaten so many worms you cannot imagine. But also we eat honey, and honey is the vomit of a bee. Actually it is. So think of that next time you pour it into your tea, that it’s bug vomit basically.”
On making lunches for his one- and four-year-old daughters: “It’s the most nerve-wracking thing there is in the entire world because you never know what happens. The thing they enjoyed last week, they might look and say, ‘I don’t want that, I hate it,’ the following week. And the most important thing for you is that your children have a healthy and happy relationship with flavours and with food. So this little moment I have every morning, where I’m planning the lunch box, is truly one of the most nerve wracking moments I have through the whole day.”
