Salt of the earth

[yanpa]

Chef is Toshio Tanabe happy to dish the dirt on his staple ingredient — earth

Like many ambitious chefs, Toshio Tanabe has travelled the land in his quest for the finest and most delicious ingredients. Time and again he has stood in the fields, sampling carrots and radishes fresh from the Japanese earth. Until the day when he happened upon the most overlooked ingredient of all — the earth itself.

Now Mr Tanabe has found culinary fame — or notoriety — as a chef of dirt. Diners at his elegant French-style restaurant in Tokyo eagerly pay some Y10,000 (£70) a head for a meal in which the key ingredient is soil.

...continues behind Murdochian paywall...

[wagyl]

Which just goes to prove that Rupert's minions are slower in putting out such news than Yahoo! or even FG.

[yanpa]

missed that