In part #4, we take a look at foods from the Middle-East as well as the Caribbean. These two regions seem to have been gaining steam recently with new immigrants bringing their culture’s foods to the west and helping to form new restaurants and fast food joints. Caribbean fast food places usually have food like fish, meat, yams and fruit. Hot peppers and lemons help to give their food a spicy edge and are the basic seasonings of their food. Lemon and hot peppers are still key ingredients in Caribbean cooking.

One of their more popular dishes is called Jerk Chicken. Jerk’ is a unique Jamaican method of preserving, seasoning and cooking meat – usually chicken or pork. The meat is marinated with a mixture of spices and peppers and traditionally cooked over a flame. The basic ingredients for a jerk flavouring are thyme, pimento, spring onion, ginger, Scotch Bonnet chillies, black pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon.

Another popular favorite in North America are patties which are typical filled with either beef or chicken. Jamaican-style meat-filled pastries are also much more spicier than typical patties.

Another popular item is rum which was filtered from sugar canes brought over by Christopher Columbus. The sugarcane is now a staple of the Caribbean diets and in most homes you will find that desserts are incorporated in to most meals with cakes, pies and dumplings and are just as important as a hot main meal.

Arabian food today is the result of a combination of Lebanese/Indian cooking and many items not indigenous to the Persian gulf region. One of the more noticeable foods at a fast food joint is called a falafel. A falafel is a fried ball or patty of spiced fava beans or chickpeas. It’s traditionally served as a filling ingredient in a pita bread wrap. (more…)

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I thought we’d place this article in the food department since it does technically deal with food. While surfing the net I’ve come across many different gadgets that deal with food that help to make our lives much more easier. Some have been important and others are downright weird. Here’s the first volume in a series of simply lazy boobnewb food gadgets to help make our lives less lazy one step at a time.

-I’ve seen electric toothbrushes but why not electric forks? This little twirling spaghetti fork spins for you and helps to twirl your spaghetti so that you can eat it in a lazier fashion. All you need is two AAA batteries an you’re all set with this little puppy.

-I love soft drinks so this little device certainly helps myself and I. It’s a sprout that attaches to the top of a 2L soft drink bottle and can be used for watering purposes in your home garden. Since most of us on this site don’t garden ; we’ll consider it a very large straw for us to drink our favorite beverage with. Cheers.

-When I was younger, I used to have a small, nice little lunch bag where I would place my sandwich, juice and granola bar inside. These days I use the trusty designer sandwich container to make myself be the coolest kid kid in the cafeteria. With this little sandwich container I can enjoy my lunch and look cool eating it at the same time.

-Sometimes i’m so lazy that I can’t give myself the will-power to go downstairs to my bar and fix myself up a drink. This is why I’ve decided to go and get my very own portable bar for the lazy bar owner out there. Now I can sit at the comfort of my armchair surfing the web and making myself a drink all within 5 feet of each other.

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In part #3 ,we take a look at some lesser known regional foods which are gaining popularity within restaurant and fast food culture.

Indian Food

Unlike many other countries, Indian food is more of a combination of different foods as opposed to one single dish. Whereas other places serve pizza or burgers as their main foods, Indian food is better as a combination of 3 separate foods. Usually these meals consist of some type of starch, a main dish, and vegetables.

Chicken is a huge specialty in Indian restaurants since Indians consider cows sacred and can’t eat any beef products and Muslims don’t eat any pork products either.Tandoori Chicken is one of the favorite ways of making chicken in India. Tandoori Chicken is made by marinating chicken with special spices and grilling/baking it on a special clay oven.A lot of Indian foods can be eaten with your hands as well compared to other cultures where eating with your hands is less exceptable. The other really noticeable thing about Indian food is that it’s loaded up with different kinds of spices.These spices include ginger, black mustard, chili pepper,coriander and others.Other cultures like the Chinese are known for their sauces and Indian food is known for it’s wide varieties of spices used in their food. This is both delightful and hurtful as the food may taste good at first but later cause digestive problems to the person that just consumed the food. This is why ‘Paan’ can often be served with meals as the dark-green leaf of the betel-pepper plant is an astringent and is believed to help in clearing the system.Indian food also involves Chutney which is a sweet-and-spicy condiment, originally from eastern India. Curry is also used and refer to almost any spiced, sauce-based dishes cooked in various south and southeast Asian styles.Samosas are also very popular appetizers. It generally consists of a fried triangular / pyramid shaped pastry shell with potato, onion and pea stuffing, but other stuffings like minced meat are also used.Here are some well known Indian foods:

Tandoori Chicken

Chicken Tikka

Paan (more…)

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