Everything weird does not come from Japan. The Austrians are determined to keep up via the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.
A pepper trumpet, a leek violin, a carrot recorder, and suddenly you can enjoy a unique musical concert followed by a delicious salad.
I’m not shocked someone decided to literally play their food, but I am astonished [...]

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Once upon a time, corn on the cob was only available in one color. If you didn’t like yellow, you didn’t eat corn.
These days, most grocery stores stock the sweetest color for the season. That means you’ll find yellow in the spring, white in the late summer, bi-color in between, and the multi-colored decorative [...]

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If you’re not from the south, you might feel a twinge of suspicion towards a canned food that looks suspiciously like popcorn soaked in corn syrup. However, long before people chomped down on those sweet yellow kernels you know and love, this was the only corn you could find.  If you go back in time, [...]

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Corn. Sweet, delicious, and one of the most improbable grains to become a staple. If you look at the strange and ancient ancestors of wheat, rye, barley, or oats, they basically look like an untamed version of the same beast. Fewer seeds, more spikes, a punk look just daring you to husk their shell before [...]

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