This J-Walk blog is great. Links to The Amazing and Versatile Food Suit, feral children, the Art Garfunkel reading library, Tom Volk’s Fungus of the Month pages, the Amazing Asian Snack Selection, and much more.

And have you been searching for a great new flavor? Perhaps an exotic fruit that tastes like banana pudding with “just a touch of butterscotch, vanilla, peach, pineapple, strawberry, and almond flavors, and a surprising twist of — garlic??!!” Then you need to wrap your tongue around a durian:

It’s one of the remarkable traits of this remarkable fruit that so many people, especially in Eastern cultures, totally, wildly, enthusiastically enjoy everything about durians, including their fragrance, while many others, mostly from Western cultures, are repulsed by the same fragrance and say that it “stinks.” Particularly in Southeast Asia, durians are loved by millions of people with a passion and near-reverence quite unusual for mere food. Meanwhile in the West, durians have gained a notorious reputation for their unfamiliar and strong aroma, largely as a result of Western travel writers and horticultural writers delighting in using snide phrases like “unbearable stench,” “rotten onions with limburger cheese and low-tide seaweed,” “French custard passed through a sewer pipe,” or “like sitting on the toilet eating your favorite ice cream.”