Jacques Torres: Foodies

Marilyn Haggerty Dept: Take a panel of seven foodies and ply them with with exotic versions of popular American snacks from around the world, and these are the reactions you get. Tentative nibbles and scrunched noses, according to The Star. They included food bloggers, famed French pastry chef Jacques Torres and Marilyn Haggerty, an 85-year-old North Dakota newspaper columnist whose high praise of the Olive Garden went viral earlier this year. A New York fourth-grader and self-proclaimed junk food aficionado rounded out the group and nEW YORK, N.Y. Chocolate dog food. Old garden hose. Weirdly fishy. The taste testers gathered recently at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York and represented varying levels of culinary pedigree. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.