Dakota Gardener: Growing fancy vegetables in the garden

What is the fanciest, most exotic food you have ever eaten?

I once ate snails.

When I was young and single, I used to eat at Wendy's or Taco Bell almost every day. A friend told me that I was missing out on the best things of life. She took me to a French restaurant and ordered escargot for me.

I ate the slimy critters, but that was my first and last meal of snails. By the way, I went to Wendy'...