gracious/cooking

Hazelnut-praline-and-crispy-rice happily dressed in thick coats of white or milk chocolate bristling with dark or milk chocolate sprinkles or crispy rice. Three hedgehogs inhabit one 2.5 oz. package.

$9.98 at HeartSong

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These ape-shaped cakes were designed and created by Marked for Dessert, for a party to mark the grand opening of the Regenstein Center for African Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Each ape is hand-carved cake covered in rolled fondant. The bananas and leaves were created from rolled fondant and hand painted for natural coloring.

Joe Staton, formerly of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, spent an unhealthily long time studying whether everything really does taste of chicken. He concluded that taste is, in large part, to do with the evolutionary origin of an animal. So, birds all taste like chicken, and so does crocodile, since dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds too. But why do tarantulas taste like chicken? And is fugu worth the risk?

Here are seven of the world's more exotic delicacies, what they actually taste like - and where you can try, or avoid, them.

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