The Bizarre Truth: Culinary Misadventures Around the Globe-Fast Shipping

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Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has anextraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out andsample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stewin Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefiedshark in blood pudding in Iceland and Wolfgang Puck’s Hunan style rooster balls inLos Zimmern, local cuisine—bizarre, gross or downright stomach turningas it may be to us—is not simply what’s served at is a primary avenueto discovering what is most authentic—the bizarre truth—about cultures eaten his way around the world over the course of four seasons of BizarreFoods, Zimmern has now launched Bizarre Worlds, a new series on the Travel Channel,and this, his first book, a chronicle of his journeys as he not only tastes the “tabootreats” of the world, but delves deep into the cultures and lifestyles of far-flunglocales and seeks the most prized of the modern traveler’s goals:The AuthenticExperience. Written in the smart, often hilarious voice he uses to narrate his TVshows, Zimmern uses his adventures in “culinary anthropology” to illustrate suchthemes as: why visiting local markets can reveal more about destinations than museums;the importance of going to “the last stop on the subway”—the most remote area ofa 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 snout totail, local, fresh and organic takes readers into the back of a soukin Morocco where locals are eating a whole roasted lamb; along with a conch fishermanin Tobago, who may be the last of his kind;toMississippi, where he dines on raccoonand , he writes, “People said, ‘That’s roadkill!’‘No it’s not,’ Isaid. ‘It’s a cultural story.’”

Whether it’s a session with an Incan witch doctorin Ecuador who blows fire on him, spits on him, thrashes him with poisonous branchesand beats him with a live guinea pig or drinking blood in Uganda and cow urine tonicin India or eating roasted bats on an uninhabited island in Samoa, Zimmern cheerfullycelebrates the undiscovered destinations and weird wonders still remaining in ourincreasingly globalized world.