Let Us Now Praise Stinky Foods: How to Cure Icelandic Hakarl (Including Urine) – Village Voice (blog)

Can you believe this innocent looking plate of blubbery cubes is one of the stinkiest substances on earth?
Of the ancient Icelandic dish hakarl, Anthony Bourdain declared it to be “the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing.” And coming from the host of No Reservations, that’s really saying something.
Hakarl begins with the flayed flesh of the Greenland shark, a species with tissue so high in uric acid, that it’s considered inedible without long periods of curing. This curing is ..read more

