White wine, beer, rice, brussels sprouts, dark meat fish, and unfiltered tap water all have possibly dangerous levels of arsenic. Possibly dangerous levels of arsenic are considered low levels because it’s the forking HIGH levels that kill you!

We don’t know all the effects of arsenic yet. We also don’t know exactly how the arsenic gets in these things we consume. We know that plants absorb arsenic. We also know that arsenic is found in soil, water, fertilizer, pesticide, pressure treated wood, and clay soil.

A study showed that people who drank one and a half beers a day or one glass of white wine a day had THIRTY Forking percent more arsenic in their bodies than from people who didn’t drink alcohol.

Arsenic is also found in apple juice, grape juice, and rice cereals.

References-Men’s Journal & News.Discovery.com

The Line to enter devoured was much longer than I ever seen before. The Line started near the door and went threw the back of the museum threw the Andy Warhol display and around back threw the front.

30 something local and high end restaurants, 30something wineries and several breweries participated. VIP Tickets were available and did cost $150.00 for the day. The VIPs were entitled to arrive early before general admission and got special dibs from Chef Greg Laprad of Overland Trout and Chef Dustin Christofolo of Quiessence.

I enjoyed the two day event very much but comparing the event to previous years this one did fall short. The reception room used to have many participants and cheerful live music was playing to entertain. I also miss all the tall small tables were you could set your plates down. I felt the festival seemed more crowded than usual and maybe the loss of tables made way for more tickets sold? I also miss the nice inside dining in the museum restaurant. It was a welcome break we no longer have. A live local band used to play there too that we lost.

I noticed on Sunday that one restaurant ran out of food around 12:00. The restaurant was The Upton.

In the reception room was all the wines they were pouring for sale.

Pistol Whipped Pastry with lemon pot de creme with thyme sable.

Brazen Chocolate

Brittle Bliss Gourmet Brittles.

And a few more tables.

We wait in line and soon make it out the doors. One of the most delicious plates was this cheese ravioli from Federal Pizza.

 

Next was The Parlor with a Garden Green Ravioli.

 

The Public Market Cafe gave out Porchetta Sandwiches and Fruit Loop Macarons.

District American Kitchen and Wine Bar had…

My husband liked the Green Chili Pork with local tortilla from Tavern Americana.

The Breadfruit gave out oysters.

Virtue gave out Duck Foie Gras Rillette, Smoked Duck a la orange, Garlic Frites with Foie Gras Aioli all on a plate.

J & G Steak House prepared Peckytoe Crab Cakes and Tenderloin with Cheese Crisps.

Hana Gave out a whole forking buffet.

Pork Yakibuta, Tako Yaki (octopus meatballs) Walu Fish, Mochi Kome (rice dessert) and Green Beans.

Citizen House prepared Buffalo Tartare and Rockfish Ceviche on Yucca Chip.

The Gladly prepared the most interesting and unusual dish I tried on Sunday. It was this Meyer Lemon Cured Tuna Parfait. It had very unusual textures and danced with flavors. My pictures don’t do it justice. They also prepared two other plates one was beef jerky.

 

It was very difficult to even walk in this area with the crowds. You forking REALLY felt like a sardine here.

The Elote Cafe prepared Elote Corn and Machacca Lamb. (not forking sure if machacca spelled right)

 

I had Hemp Seed Coated Albacore from The Phoenix City Grill.

Bitter and Twisted made Pork Truffle Potstickers with slaw.

 

Tinderbox Kitchen made Strip Steak Pastrami and slaw. The pastrami was good but the slaw had a forking weird taste.

Fez made golden shrimp and egg curry.

Switch made pancakes topped with cheese and crispy chicken skin.

Southern Rail made smoked trout over pea cakes with tomato jam.

My husband ate this from Proof. We forking don’t remember but I think it was shrimp and grits.

 

Kai put out a buffet too. Corn Horchata, Game Meat Machaca or is it Machacca?  (I couldn’t find out what kind of forking game meat. I was just old GAME Meat) and Sturgeon Salad.

Maybe it’s normally good at the restaurant but the Brisket from House of Tricks was forking indestructible to any human mouth. You could use it for rubber truck tires.

 

I know I had good food at the Pink Pony Recently but the Unami Burger patty was almost tasteless. The home made chips were nice and crispy.

 

The Tuck Shop set up their meatballs like a circus game.

You inserted a token in the red slot and one of three kinds of meatballs came out in a gum ball plastic protected tub. One meatball came out hot in red sauce. The next meat ball came out forking ice cold in cold sour cream.

Hula’s Thai Chicken Bowl might be good at the restaurant but at the festival it was a forking throw away.

 

Short Leash made three kinds of Donuts and also served beef hot dogs in Pretzel Buns. The Apple donut lacked sweetness and the Thai Donut was extremely sweet and very drippy maybe from the Arizona heat. My donut almost forking did a pee.

Sweet Republic served up boozy ice pops.

They both tasted great but I forking lost the red one as it slid off the stick when I forking licked it. They were cucumber Gin and Cherry Bourbon.

Sassi made some sort of cauliflower crostini served with vegetables and a stuffed squash blossom. I liked them they were a nice treat.

Joy Ride Taco made Chili Braised Pork Tacos.

Tammie Coe Cakes made some sort of chocolate dessert.

The creamy chocolate on top of the cookie tasted like very high quality chocolate.

I came and Forking Devoured at Devoured 2015

Believe or not I missed some stuff and didn’t actually eat everything I photoed. That would be forking impossible you know.

 

Food manufacturers get forking sued because they put things on their labels that isn’t forking true and the other problem is that they don’t tell you what’s actually in the product.

According to Top Class Actions Diamond Foods labeled several varieties of their Kettle Tias Tortilla Chips as “All Natural” although they contain the synthetic Maltodextrin and Dextrose.

The FDA has no definition of what is  forking “natural” according to naturalnews.com.

Tropicana markets it’s orange juice as “Fresh from the Grove” “Great tasting 100% Juice” BUT THE FORKING TRUTH is that it’s heavily processed with added chemically engineered flavor packs.

Besides no longer going snap, crackle and POP! No forking person would ever guess that this forking box of Rice Krispies has unidentified animal in it that’s possibly liver or kidneys in this box of cereal. I forking purchased this box and noticed it didn’t have any mark for dairy or kosher or vegetarian so I thought that was odd and I read the ingredients and nothing seemed unknown at all. I forking called up Kellogg’s myself and asked them if the cereal was vegetarian. I was told the Riboflavin was sourced from an unidentified animal. I looked up riboflavin and found out it comes from Livers or Kidneys from animals.

Uncertified V for vegan and uncertified K for Kosher appear on food packaging. I was told it’s legal for manufacturers to do so. The Gelatin box below has an uncertified K and is not kosher although the misguided or forking stupid manufacturer believes the product is kosher.

 

 

Pork can never be forking kosher.

Maybe some day someone will chemically change forking lumps of poop into meatloaf  and tell you it’s not poop. How the fork would THAT go over?

Certified Vegan and Vegetarian Symbols.

Certified Kosher Symbols.

If you purchased processed bread and baked goods you might be purchasing L-Cysteine. Anything made with common L-cysteine also not Halal, Not vegetarian, Not Vegan and Not Kosher.

I wrote about FORKING L-Cysteine a few post back. It’s crazy that people would use such a thing.  I do understand it’s possible that it might be needed in certain countries that are very poor where people are starving but it shouldn’t show up in the United States.

The one that I can’t get the fork over…..is another WTFork.

If it’s listed on your food label it’s listed as “Natural Flavor” and that’s because IT IS natural flavor but what they don’t tell you is that it is called Castoreum. It’s the secretion from the castor sacs of beavers. It’s the scent gland located by the beaver’s anus and the very strong scented liquid gets mixed with beaver urine and most of it’s food use is for flavoring vanilla, strawberry or raspberry items. Only a trace amount is needed. I have no FORKING idea why someone would want to eat castoreum and why the FORK that person would think other people would want to eat it.

Packages that are marked Vegan, Vegetarian or kosher don’t contain castoreum.

It doesn’t forking matter if you read the label. Your Food Might Not Be What You Forking Think It Is!