The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes

Fugu. Dog. Cobra. Bees. Spleen. A 600,000 SCU chili pepper.

All considered foods by millions of people around the world. And all objects of great fascination to Tom Parker Bowles, a food journalist who grew up eating his mother's considerably safer roast chicken, shepherd's pie and mushy peas. Intrigued by the food phobias of two friends, Parker Bowles became inspired to examine the cultural divides that make some foods verboten or "dangerous" in the culture he grew up with while being seen...