Maybe you’ve come across examples of humans eating dirt throughout
history, perhaps due to certain disorders or out of necessity
(geophagy)-dirt is not typically something that one finds at high-end
restaurants, but Ne Quittez Pas, a French-inspired Japanese restaurant
in Tokyo has decided to add dirt to its $110 menu.
Rocket News 24 reveals the list of courses incorporating dirt as the
star ingredient, like potato starch and dirt soup, salad with dirt
dressing, dirt risotto, and dirt ice cream and dirt gratin for dessert.
The report says that “the food tasted so little of the earthiness I
was expecting that I’d kind of forgotten about that ingredient,” also
assuring that the soil is tested for its safety and purity.
The chef in the restaurant is Japanese, although he was trained in
France. Chef Toshio Tanabe has also worked at numerous Michelin-starred
restaurants prior to opening Ne Quittez Pas in 1994.
Many might think that dirt is quite easy to come by, and should help
to reduce the cost of the menu. However, it has been reported that Chef
Toshio Tanabe only uses the best dirt – which apparently has to be
shipped in from Sri Lanka and India.
The restaurant imports its dirt through dirt-selling company
Protoleaf, which tests the dirt for safety and purity before
distributing it.
Eating dirt is not known to be recommended by medical professionals
though, however, over recent years there have been some nutritionists
who suggest eating clay may have some real health benefits.
A nutrition expert at the Yale School of Medicine and a medical
contributor for ABC News, Dr. David L. Katz, has said: “It is possible
that the binding effect of clay would cause it to absorb toxins.”
Clay also has a well-documented ability to absorb plant toxins.
Don’t know what to say about this though, but isn’t dirt a weird choice of ingredient?
Would you eat a meal with dirt as one of the ingredients?
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