'Food glorious food - Feasting throughout 2018'

'Food glorious food - Feasting throughout 2018'
08:05 Jun 26, 2023
'(23 Dec 2018) LEAD IN Would you be game enough to try fried tarantulas and maggot infested cheese, all washed down with mice wine, for your Christmas dinner?  Changing tastes in 2018 have seen many people embrace some unusual food trends, but instagrammable dinners and cake remain firm favourites.   STORY-LINE There\'s something fishy going on in this sushi restaurant in Milan, called \'This is not a sushi bar\'. It\'s offering free food to customers with a large social media following. If you have over 1000 followers Instagram you receive one free dish, 5000 will get you two dishes and for 100,000 followers your meal is free.  Clizia Incorvaia has 200,000 followers and is getting a free meal with her friend Vittoria Hyde.  \"So increase your number of followers, otherwise goodnight,\" says Hyde.  Instagram is also boosting sales,  and interest, in Ukrainian architect turned pastry chef Dinara Kasko. She uses the platform to show off her tasty treats made using using 3D printing technology. Kasko uses 3D-printed moulds to create her complex geometric desserts. All her cakes begin life on a computer screen, inspiring others to experiment with their own ways of breaking the mould.  If you\'re looking for a slice of the British capital, you can\'t go wrong with this towering bake. The edible Big Ben clock is greeting visitors to London\'s annual Cake & Bake Show, claimed to be the UK\'s biggest baking event. \"People are loving the idea of making a statement with cake, getting a little bit of wow factor, being the centre of the party,\" says the cake artist Rosie Dummer. London\'s annual Cake & Bake Show celebrated the theme; \'Around the World in 80 Cakes,\' meaning a tasty international tour. Cakes fit for royalty were also turning heads, especially red velvet-and-chocolate cake which is what guests were served at Princess Eugenie\'s wedding in Windsor. One London-based cake maker says the couple\'s decision to opt for something different follows a general trend away from traditional fruit cakes, part influenced by Harry and Meghan\'s wedding.  \"Nowadays, our couples, no one, except maybe the grandma, wants the fruit cake,\" says Rosalind Miller of Rosalind Miller Cakes.  Sweet treats are also on the menu for Monaco\'s royal family.  They look like lemons, but this is the Palace of Monaco and nothing can be taken for granted. Chef Christian Garcia is the president of the Club des Chef de Chefs - an exclusive club made up of head chefs around the world who serve their monarch, or head of state. He\'s been working here for thirty-one years and there\'s probably no-one who knows better the tastes of Prince Albert and the royal family. But not everyone wants fancy food.  Sheep eyeball juice, fermented shark, bull testicles and maggot-infested cheese are the foods on offer at Malmo\'s new Disgusting Food Museum.  These foods provoke extreme disgust in many people but are palatable, even delicious, in their home cultures  \"The evolutionary function of disgust is to help us avoid foods that might be dangerous, that are contaminated, toxic, gone off,\" says  Samuel West, Curator and Chief \'Disgustologist\', The Disgusting Food Museum.    In some cultures there\'s little choice but to eat insects, spiders or bugs.  Fried tarantulas  and scorpions have long been a popular snack in Cambodia. So popular in fact that overhunting has seen a decline in numbers, meaning prices have increased sharply.  Tarantulas are the most popular item on the menu at Bugs Cafe in Siem Reap, where they only use insects.  But will protein-packed creepy crawlies be able to conquer Italian palates?   Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork  Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/5f6ecd5e5b1b767656bcd49f96b8486f' 

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