Posted by April MacIntyre Mar 10, 2010, 15:49 GMT
We've all seen chef/writer/all around cool guy Anthony Bourdain trekking in exotic locales, eating souffled bug bits and exclaiming the grub was not bad, especially if was washed down with the local vino or beer.
Have some cheese? Von Mühlenen Cheese company, poses with his cheeses at the XXI World Cheese Awards 2009 Congress Festival, held at Alfredo Kraus auditorium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, 02 October 09. EPA/Elvira Urquijo A./Photopress EPA
Then there is the Jackass team making Chris Pontius drink horse semen, or naturalist Jeff Corwin rooting grubs out of rotting Agave plants in Mexico and gamely eating them toasted up con carne by the local abuelita. The coup de grace was TV cook Paula Deen chowing down a Krispy Kreme egg-topped burger with bacon and living to tell about it.
All kinds of grotesqueries the world has to offer, it's just perspective, what is edible, what is taboo. Mayonnaise is my personal "no go", as the idea of it and the smell makes me run for the hills. Others slather it on and couldn't make a sammie without it.
For the adventurous gourmand, there is now Human breast milk being processed into cheese, for those willing to go there.
FOX news went and found an enterprising New York area chef who took his wife's surplus breast milk and MacGyvered it into some queso.
"Mommy's Milk" cheese was created by chef Daniel Angerer of Klee Brasserie — and people are going for it. The cheese is being sampled by the interested outside of the restaurant.
"We see this supply in the freezer and basically can't stuff anymore breast milk in there," Angerer told FoxNews.com.
"We realized we were going to have to throw a lot of it out, pour this liquid gold down the drain, and we were not going to do that," Angerer said. "So, me being a chef, we said, 'Hey, let's make some cheese!'"
Angerer posted his new recipe on his blog, "Taking Butter From Lettuce and Sugar From Peas," and from there, Mason said, it took off "like wildfire."
"People were sort of intrigued, interested, put off, fascinated, disgusted — whatever it is, people were obviously reacting and responding to it," she said.
The consensus is, the cheese tastes like...cheese. Kind of Provolone-ish according to one person interviewed by FOX. The woman donating the breast milk is a vegetarian who also claims her diet affects the taste of her "cheese."
"Consumption of breast milk could unknowingly expose consumers to infectious diseases like hepatitis and HIV," FoxNews.com Managing Health Editor, Dr. Manny Alvarez wrote in the Fox News Health Blog.
The chef claims that the tastings are so popular that human Gelato is a possible next experiment.
April MacIntyre is Monsters and Critics' TV and celebrity Editor, since 2004. Twitter
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