LAS VEGAS (MainStreet) -- Comfort foods -- those foods you eat when you crave something familiar and delicious, such as pizza, french fries, chocolate and ice cream -- are always in style. As today's cuisine gets ever more evolved there's a new style of comfort food: the strange but delicious.
TravelsinTaste has rounded up some of the more unusual yet delicious foods -- maybe not destined to become a comfort food for all, but definitely temping to try at least once in a lifetime.
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Blaue Gans Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner has his own take on nouveau comfort food with roots in Germany but a New York flair: blood sausage with fingerling potatoes and sauerkraut. "Blood sausage with potatoes and sauerkraut is a real comfort food in Germany and Austria, where it is a favorite traditional dish. Because the blood makes the sausage so intense, the potatoes add a great, starchy counterpoint. This has been on the menu since Blaue Gans opened; people are always surprised how much they like it," he says.
Blood sausage has become a favorite at Blaue Gans, Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner says.
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