Extreme Cuisine: The Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat
"I could not have written A Cook's Tour without this book. There is so much I would have missed. So dig in. Enjoy… Eat. Eat adventurously. Miss nothing. It's all here in these pages." —From the Foreword by Anthony Bourdain

Sit down for a meal with the locals on six continents—what they are eating may surprise you. Extreme Cuisine examines eating habits across the globe, showing once and for all that one man's road kill is another man's delicacy!

"I've tried to make this book a guide to how the other half dines and why. Over a period of twenty-five years I've augmented my meat-and-potatoes upbringing in the United States to try a wide variety of regional specialties, from steamed water beetles, fried grasshoppers and ants, to sparrow, bison and crocodile. I've eaten deep-fried bull's testicles in Mexico, live shrimp sushi in Hawaii, mice cooked over an open wood fire in Thailand, pig stomach soup in Singapore, minced water buffalo and yak butter tea in Nepal, stir-fried dog tongue, and "five penis wine" in China." —From the introduction by Jerry Hopkins

Dive headfirst into food culture from around the world. Join author Jerry Hopkins on a culinary and cultural tour as he explores foods that may seem bizarre, and often off-putting, to us. As he says, "What is considered repulsive to someone in one part of the world, in another part of the world is simply considered lunch."

Part travelogue, part cultural commentary and history, and part cookbook (yes, really), with Extreme Cuisine anyone can become an adventurous eater—or at least learn what it's like to be one.

Chapters include:
  • Mammals
  • Reptiles&Water Creatures
  • Birds
  • Insects, Spiders&Scorpions
  • Plants
  • Leftovers
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Extreme Cuisine: The Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat
"I could not have written A Cook's Tour without this book. There is so much I would have missed. So dig in. Enjoy… Eat. Eat adventurously. Miss nothing. It's all here in these pages." —From the Foreword by Anthony Bourdain

Sit down for a meal with the locals on six continents—what they are eating may surprise you. Extreme Cuisine examines eating habits across the globe, showing once and for all that one man's road kill is another man's delicacy!

"I've tried to make this book a guide to how the other half dines and why. Over a period of twenty-five years I've augmented my meat-and-potatoes upbringing in the United States to try a wide variety of regional specialties, from steamed water beetles, fried grasshoppers and ants, to sparrow, bison and crocodile. I've eaten deep-fried bull's testicles in Mexico, live shrimp sushi in Hawaii, mice cooked over an open wood fire in Thailand, pig stomach soup in Singapore, minced water buffalo and yak butter tea in Nepal, stir-fried dog tongue, and "five penis wine" in China." —From the introduction by Jerry Hopkins

Dive headfirst into food culture from around the world. Join author Jerry Hopkins on a culinary and cultural tour as he explores foods that may seem bizarre, and often off-putting, to us. As he says, "What is considered repulsive to someone in one part of the world, in another part of the world is simply considered lunch."

Part travelogue, part cultural commentary and history, and part cookbook (yes, really), with Extreme Cuisine anyone can become an adventurous eater—or at least learn what it's like to be one.

Chapters include:
  • Mammals
  • Reptiles&Water Creatures
  • Birds
  • Insects, Spiders&Scorpions
  • Plants
  • Leftovers
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Extreme Cuisine: The Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat

Extreme Cuisine: The Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat

Extreme Cuisine: The Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat

Extreme Cuisine: The Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat

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Overview

"I could not have written A Cook's Tour without this book. There is so much I would have missed. So dig in. Enjoy… Eat. Eat adventurously. Miss nothing. It's all here in these pages." —From the Foreword by Anthony Bourdain

Sit down for a meal with the locals on six continents—what they are eating may surprise you. Extreme Cuisine examines eating habits across the globe, showing once and for all that one man's road kill is another man's delicacy!

"I've tried to make this book a guide to how the other half dines and why. Over a period of twenty-five years I've augmented my meat-and-potatoes upbringing in the United States to try a wide variety of regional specialties, from steamed water beetles, fried grasshoppers and ants, to sparrow, bison and crocodile. I've eaten deep-fried bull's testicles in Mexico, live shrimp sushi in Hawaii, mice cooked over an open wood fire in Thailand, pig stomach soup in Singapore, minced water buffalo and yak butter tea in Nepal, stir-fried dog tongue, and "five penis wine" in China." —From the introduction by Jerry Hopkins

Dive headfirst into food culture from around the world. Join author Jerry Hopkins on a culinary and cultural tour as he explores foods that may seem bizarre, and often off-putting, to us. As he says, "What is considered repulsive to someone in one part of the world, in another part of the world is simply considered lunch."

Part travelogue, part cultural commentary and history, and part cookbook (yes, really), with Extreme Cuisine anyone can become an adventurous eater—or at least learn what it's like to be one.

Chapters include:
  • Mammals
  • Reptiles&Water Creatures
  • Birds
  • Insects, Spiders&Scorpions
  • Plants
  • Leftovers

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781462904723
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Publication date: 05/28/2019
Series: NONE
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

Jerry Hopkins (1935-2018) published over 1,000 magazine articles and 38 books, including international bestsellers: No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography of Jim Morrison, and Elvis: The Biography. A pioneering correspondent and contributing editor for Rolling Stone, Hopkins developed a strong reputation as a travel writer while living in Bangkok, and regularly wrote for publications such as The New York Times and Conde Nast Traveler, and published many books, including Bangkok Babylon and Thailand Confidential.

Foreword
Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018) was host of the Travel Channel's Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, a 28-year veteran of professional kitchens, and the executive chef at New York's famed bistro, Les Halles. He is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, an international best-seller.

Photographer
Michael Freeman is a professional photographer and author, with more than 100 book titles to his credit. He was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.

Since then, working for editorial clients that include all the world's major magazines, and notably the Smithsonian Magazine (with which he has had a 30-year association, shooting more than 40 stories), Freeman's reputation has resulted in more than 100 books published. Of these, he is author as well as photographer, and they include more than 40 books on the practice of digital photography--for this photographic educational work he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture. He is also responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK's Open College of the Arts.

Table of Contents

Foreword7
Photographer's Preface9
Introduction11
Mammals16
Dogs & Cats18
Horse28
Bison, Water Buffalo & Yak33
Rats & Mice41
Hamsters, Gerbils & Guinea Pigs46
Bats49
Elephant54
Primates & Other Bush Meat57
Kangaroo64
Bear68
Whale71
Camel77
Guts81
Ears, Eyes, Noses, Lungs, Tongues, Lips, Gums, Glands & Feet85
Brains92
Genitalia95
Urine101
Human Flesh105
Reptiles & Water Creatures114
Snake115
Lizards121
Alligator & Crocodile125
Frog & Toad131
Shark135
Fugu140
Jellyfish145
Snails & Slugs148
Worms153
Fish Eggs157
Birds162
Balut163
Ostrich & Emu166
Rooster Comb, Wattle & Testicles, Duck Beak & Web, Chicken Feet & Odd Eggs171
Songbirds, Pigeons & Doves174
Birds' Nest180
Insects, Spiders & Scorpions187
Grasshoppers190
Ants & Termites193
Bees & Wasps199
Spiders & Scorpions202
Cockroaches205
Beetles208
Crickets & Cicadas212
Butterflies & Moths216
Flies221
The Amazing Isan Bug-Catcher224
Plants226
Poisonous Plants229
Flowers234
Noni Fruit239
Grass, Bark, Leaves, Wood & Sap241
Marmite & Vegemite246
Seaweed & Algae250
Hallucinogenic Plants254
Durian259
Cactus262
Leftovers267
Blood268
Live & Almost Live273
Fermented Food277
Fake Food283
Gold & Silver289
Dirt292
Dumpster Diving296
Road Kill299
Sex & Food303
Excrement306
Afterword311
Bibliography317
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