Extreme Cuisine: The Weird and Wonderful Foods that People Eat

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
• Published by: Periplus Editions May 15, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 079460255X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0794602550
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 2.8 pounds

Product Review
"an informative, if stumach-churning tour de gastronome. Make sure you chow down first; you will not be hungry afterwards." -- Time Magazine

Product Description
Sit down for a meal with the locals on six continents-what they eat may surprise you. Extreme Cuisine looks at eating habits across the global neighborhood, showing once and for all that road kill for one culture is restaurant fare for another! From the foreword by Anthony Bourdain: 'I could not have written A Cook's Tour without this book. There is so much I would have missed. And experience has shown me that no matter how frightening a dish may look on the page, in front of you, on the table, with a proud host watching your first tasting-and the accompaniment of much local beverage, it's almost always worth the ride. For truly-how terrible can it be?" 'So dig in. Enjoy. Eat without fear or prejudice, secure in the knowledge that millions of people have been enjoying this fare for centuries without ill effect. Get away from your hotel dining room-and the tourist terror domes and range wild and free. Eat. Eat adventurously. Miss nothing. It's all here in these pages."

Reader Reviews
Jerry Hopkins has raised the bar in food scholarship - Extreme Cuisine is an extremely entertaining read and a primary source for anyone interested in how (with recipes) and what other (often rural) world cultures eat. A most worthy successor to Unmentionable Cuisine. Great color photography inserts. Hopkins provides scholarly detail about some subjects some pet-lovers might find less tasty (eating dogs, cats, horse, monkeys, etc), some which are most assuredly unknown by most (eating rooster combs, wattles & testicles) and has a good sense of humor by including dumpster diving and eating roadkill. As Anthony Bourain learned, Hopkins is the perfect guide, the "Old Hand" to the other (than American style packaged foods) food worlds. A must buy for any serious culinary library.