Nathanial Rawson

I'm just a young guy with an interest in strange food and too much time on my hands. I do like to cook, and have tried making my own style recipes since I was a kid. Some of them should be listed under the strange food category, but most of it wasn't bad.
Now, between college classes, I get to look for all the crazy food related stuff that everyone loves to talk about, and write it all down for you to read.

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March 8, 2014

When someone bites into a sandwich or opens a can of soda, they don't expect anything to be in there besides what they expected. But, sometimes things happen, and those things can be fingers in...

March 8, 2014

Spring is the season of fresh foods and warm sun after months of cold, snowy weather and heavy winter meals. Spring is also thought of as one of the healthiest seasons, loaded with salads and greek...

March 8, 2014

The first official day of Spring is coming up soon, and that means that the long-forgotten fresh vegetable is about to make another appearance. And while this might be a welcome break from the canned...

March 8, 2014

Healthy eating is a positive trend that's seen a surge in popularity in the past few years. But even the most staunch supporter of the green cooking resurgence has to admit that sometimes, you...

March 7, 2014

The drink industry, cocktails in particular, is a strange beast. Consumers constantly cry for more interesting and harder-hitting mixes, but at the same time they decry the flavor of the actual booze...

March 7, 2014

One of the most amazing things about food is the sheer number of possible combinations you can make out of the simplest ingredients. Cheddar cheese and mustard? Go ahead. Pizza and Ranch Dressing?...

March 7, 2014

This might not come as a suprise to some, but it turns out that advertisements don't tell the whole truth sometimes. Shocking, I know. With such words as 'healthy' and 'low fat'...

March 7, 2014

Most everyone knows that fruits and veggies are an important part of a well-balanced diet. However 'knowing' something often doesn't directly translate into 'doing' something,...

March 6, 2014

You never really expect to eat something and have it effect you in any way more then simply filling you up, but sometimes that's the case. Most of the time the effects are simply annoying or...

March 6, 2014

People have used foods to treat illness and poor health for longer then recorded history has kept track. With many of the more time-tested cures even still in use today. Such as ginger ale for an...

March 6, 2014

Everyone seems to want to eat healthier as of late, with things such as fresh veggies and ingredients you can actually read and understand replacing boxed foods and cheese-injected hot dogs as the...

March 6, 2014

With the close relationship that the human species has with eating and meals, it's no real suprise that food can and has played an important role in our media. From TV to opera, the stage to the...

March 4, 2014

Superstitions exist about most every item, action, or even time of the day. So it's no surprise that something as important as food and eating has quite a few myths based around it. Like throwing...

March 4, 2014

Mention the word 'soup' and most folks think 'chicken noodle' or perhaps 'tomato'. But in reality, the idea of throwing food into a broth and eating it can be found in almost...

March 4, 2014

Just like here in the U.S, the country of Britain is culturally split into two sides, the north and the south. Also mirroring our own situation is the gap between the tastes of either side when it...

March 4, 2014

March is here, and that means it's almost the end of all the snow and ice. Soon Spring will be here, and with it, all the fresh greens and early season veggies one could hope for after months of...

March 3, 2014

Today is National Cold Cuts Day. And in honor of this, we've scrounged up a list of 25 of the Least Appetizing Meat Creations for your viewing pleasure. With examples ranging from the...

March 3, 2014

Bacon was once simply a humble breakfast food, relegated to sit next to eggs and that glass of orange juice in every cereal commercial ever. But then, humans began to experiment with the bacon. We...

March 3, 2014

The rich and famous are often also the thin and fit....mas. Alright so that attempt at word play didn't work out very well, but luckily the diets listed below seem to work just fine. With...

March 3, 2014

Everyone knows that fast food is a bit...Lacking in the healthy and/or natural ingredients side of things. It also tends to veer off towards the 'strange' more often then not, and the list...

March 2, 2014

In case you weren't already aware, today is National Read Across America day, which also happens to fall on the same date as the birthday of one of the best known and most talented writers,...

March 2, 2014

If you mention the word 'pie' most folks think of something along the lines of cherry or apple, sometimes even going so far as to include the multitude of cream pies. But as is always the...

March 2, 2014

Times must have been extremely different in the 'good old days' for things such as Tuna and Jello Pie and Ham and Banana Hollandaise to be considered acceptable food. I mean, just look...

March 1, 2014

Ever since 2008, IBM has partnered with DARPA to attempt and create a computer which thinks on the same level as a human being. This line of research has led to leaps and bounds in computing hardware...

March 1, 2014

The number of patents filed in the U.S every year is staggering, and although not all of them might make it to production, there are more then a few which leave a lasting impression on the psyche of...

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