{"id":8292,"date":"2015-07-24T20:33:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T03:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2015-07-24T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T03:33:02","slug":"spectacular-sustenance-kuuk-merida-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/spectacular-sustenance-kuuk-merida-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular Sustenance, Ku’uk Merida Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Food has gotten weird over the past couple of decades and I am so, so, into it. It has gone from mere sustenance, or delights to the taste and digestion to full on immersive artistic experiences that vie for attention from all of the senses. Since we do travel full time with just one carry-on bag each<\/a>, it is these delights to the eyes, ears, mouth, fingers that I relish and take with me. I am the girl who will want to spend more on adventures, meals or massages than I ever will clothes, shoes or knick knacks. <\/p>\n

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Tom has started a tradition of finding and reserving dining experiences for my birthday where I will be more likely to be blowing the vapor off of some type of complicated nitro sorbet than I will be blowing out a birthday candle. Going to places that just take food to the next level. Places that serve meals in a number of courses in the double digits. Meals that stretch out over hours served one perfect delightful bite at a time. Each bite is a handcrafted piece of artwork to be enjoyed by all of the senses and it get’s so ridiculous it’s barely even food anymore. <\/p>\n

I knew that my birthday lunch at Ku’uk in Merida, Mexico<\/a> was going to be something extra special when we sat down and the waiter informed us that our menu was themed on the creation and history of the Yucatan peninsula, beginning with the meteor that hit about 70 million years ago, triggering the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and forming the Yucatan in one gigantic fell swoop. Within moments of sitting down the waiter had mentioned a menu “theme”, dinosaurs and millions of year old meteor impacts; I knew we were in for something special! <\/p>\n

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