What people are saying about The Berry Fairy's Flavor Tripping Parties.... Addie Broyles from the Austin American-Statesmen calls Flavor Tripping "a magical food trip" read more
The Onion said ""Flavor Tripping" is the relatively innocent act of turning your taste buds inside out." "Chomping on tasteless, chewy red berries, then pigging out on Sour Patch Kids in the interest of making lemons taste like candy and goat cheese taste like cake frosting-and it all goes to make the world a better place? Trippy, Man." read more
News 8 Austin sat down with The Berry Fairy for a live on air tasting and was blown away. Watch the video here
The Austin Chronicle said "Austin is full of fantastic chances to delight your senses but this event will be the one you remember for a long time." read more
The Austin Examiner's Kay Marley said that "With berries on board, everyday foods become exotic." read more
Joshua Hinsdale fromThe Austin Examiner mentions the health benefits of the berry, "For cancer patients, it could eliminate the post-chemotherapy metallic taste in their mouths that often prevents them from eating, thus slowing the recovery process." read more
The Austin Examiner's Christina Vara does a Q&A with The Berry Fairy about Miracle Berries and the popularity of the events. read more
Alexandra from Austin Is Delicious said "Diabetics and others wishing to avoid sugar could use it as a sweetener, parents could put it on kale to trick their tender-tongued children, and even I could tolerate brussel sprouts without frying them in scads of butter." read more
Jennie Chen from MisoHungry discusses the similarities between the Cupcake Fairy and the Berry Fairy while enthusing about the berry. read more
Austin Foodie Bits calls Flavor Tripping "a whole new food adventure." read more
Iron Jack from Eating in a Box writes "The stars of the plate were the plum tomatoes, strawberries and the tomatillos. The tomatillos tasted like giant white grapes! I could not believe it. The tomatoes were like giant sugar bombs and the strawberries tasted like the most impossibly ripe and sweet strawberries I've ever tasted." read more
Alison Cook from The Houston Chronicle said Houstonian Jenny Wang is like Johnny Appleseed 2.0. She styles herself the "Berry Fairy" a reference to the West African fruit Synsepalum dulcificum--the so-called "Miracle Berry" that interferes with your taste receptors so that sour or bitter foods like lemons, vinegar, beer or Brussels sprouts all taste...sweet." read more
The Houstonist said "...people had a wonderful time tripping the night away" about the November 2008 parties at The Social. read more
Houston Press said "chief foodie and facilitator of the Houston Chowhounds food group put together a spectacular tasting party at La Strada recently. Great turn-out, about 100 people. We chewed on the berries and then tasted an assortment of stuff..." read more
The Houstonist said "The evening was still a fascinating experiment to behold. Tasting the foods was interesting, but even more interesting still was to watch a mob of a hundred people slow down and experience foods in a brand-new way... It was simply intoxicating." read more
Food in Houston blogger said "I found that the berries made lemons and limes taste like very sweet candy. Vinegar potato chips tasted like sweet barbecue chips. Guiness tasted not so stout." read more
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