The Bizarre Truth Culinary Misadventures Around the Globe

Written in the smart, often hilarious voice fans will recognize from his TV shows, Zimmern uses his adventures in "culinary anthropology" to illustrate such themes as why visiting local markets can reveal more about destinations than museums can; the importance of going to "the last stop on the subway"-the most remote area of a place where its essence is most often revealed; the need to seek out and catalog "the last bottle of Coca-Cola in the desert," i.e., disappearing foods and cultures; the profound differences between dining and eating; and the pleasures of local, fresh, and organic food from snout to tail. Whether it's session with an Incan with doctor in Educator who blows fire on him, spits on him, thrashes him with poisonous branches, and beats him with a live guinea pig or drinking blood in Uganda or eating roasted bats on an uninhabited island in Samoa, Zimmern cheerfully celebrates the undiscovered destinations and weird wonders still remaining in our increasingly globalized world.

Andrew Zimmern is a food writer, dining critic, chef, and co-creator, host, and co-producer of Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods and Bizarre Worlds with Andrew Zimmern. Zimmern is the founder and editor in chief of www.andrewzimmern.com, writes monthly for Delta Sky Magazine and Minneapolis-St Paul Magazine and lives in Minneapolis with his wife and son.


From the Hardcover edition.