Jan 28th, 2013 at 11:00AM: Andrew Zimmern insists that yak penis "melts in your mouth." The author, chef and host of the Travel Channel show "Bizarre Foods" also claims that delicacies like snake and deer penis, live frog heart, lizard sake, cow placenta, squirrel brain, sugar cane rat, wildebeast eyeballs and fried tarantulas are all perfectly edible, if not downright delicious. In Madagascar, Zimmern witnessed a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Yak Penis, Anyone? An Interview With Andrew Zimmern, Host of 'Bizarre Foods'
Jan 28th, 2013 at 11:00AM: Andrew Zimmern insists that yak penis "melts in your mouth." The author, chef and host of the Travel Channel show "Bizarre Foods" also claims that delicacies like snake and deer penis, live frog heart, lizard sake, cow placenta, squirrel brain, sugar cane rat, wildebeast eyeballs and fried tarantulas are all perfectly edible, if not downright delicious. In Madagascar, Zimmern witnessed a ...Got goat? A cultural exploration of the other red meat
Oct 10th, 2011 at 11:00AM: There are goat people, and then there...aren't. We're like dog people, except we can't carry the objects of our obsession in our purse. There aren't city parks dedicated to goats.
I grew up with goats because my brother and I raised them for 4-H. When we got our first dairy goat in the mid-'70's, my mom tapped her inner hippie, experimenting with making yogurt from the prodigious amounts of ...Andrew Zimmern to share travel recipes and tales for Food & Wine magazine
Oct 4th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
asdf Food & Wine magazine announced today the company will bring TV personality and chef Andrew Zimmern on board for a new weekly column, "Andrew Zimmern's Kitchen Adventures."
Known for his willingness to eat just about anything-insects, porcupine, you-name-it-Zimmern will forgo chowing down grotesque eats and instead show off his skills as a home cook. But never fear: the host of ...Around the World in 80 Hours (of Travel TV): Part 2
Feb 22nd, 2011 at 10:00AM:
Where does the Travel Channel take us? Rolf Potts embarks on a
one-week gonzo experiment to find out
JACKASS COMMENTATORS AND DUBIOUSLY RANKED DESTINATIONS
Day 2, Hour 17: 9:04 am.
The first Travel Channel show of the day has already begun by the time I wake up and turn on the TV. As the picture tube slowly comes into view I can hear some jackass droning on about the gentle ...Around the World in 80 Hours (of Travel TV): Part 1
Feb 21st, 2011 at 10:00AM:
PRELUDE
Day 5, Hour 77: 9:53 pm.
Twenty-three hotel floors above the gritty neon splendor of downtown Las Vegas, I am nearing the end of a bewildering travel experiment: For the past five days, I have been watching the Travel Channel for the entirety of my waking hours, without ever changing the station or (save a few key occasions) leaving my hotel room.
My goal has been to create ...Americans are least adventurous travelers
Nov 3rd, 2010 at 12:30PM: Americans love stories about great adventurers. I grew up wanting to be Indiana Jones (as evidence by the destruction I caused when I repurposed a jump rope into a whip). Bear Grylls has become a celebrity simply by surviving. Andrew Zimmern went from drug addict to chef to celebrity because of his iron constitution. Why, then, are Americans not as adventurous as the people they celebrate? In a ...The 8 weirdest foods Andrew Zimmern has eaten (video)
Apr 20th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Bald-headed and brazen, Andrew Zimmern takes culinary risk-taking to new heights on his Travel Channel show, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. Zimmern has traveled the streets of Nicaragua to the state fairs of Minnesota to find the craziest edibles on earth. We cringe when we see him chowing down on iguana eggs, reindeer pizza and pig stomach tacos -- but he does it with such zeal that we keep ...
Talking Travel: Andrew Zimmern discusses bizarre foods
Apr 8th, 2010 at 11:30AM: Andrew Zimmern is best known as the host of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. But before he was traveling the globe eating glands, connective tissue and anuses, he was an acclaimed chef, writer and expert in Chinese cuisine. The new season of his Travel Channel program premieres later this month and, in anticipation of that, he chatted with us about a wide range of topics.
...10 great Anthony Bourdain 'No Reservations' clips
Jan 28th, 2010 at 5:02PM: Known for this brash wit and obscene perversion for food, Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain has traveled the world in search of the most delectable treasures in his popular show, No Reservations. Here are 10 of the best clips from one of the best food shows on the tube:
"Hospital Chic"
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Sarah Palin and Hawaii don't mix? About comfort zones vs going rogue
Dec 8th, 2009 at 6:00PM: Here's a tidbit about Sarah Palin that caught my attention. According to her dad, Palin left college in Hawaii because being around too many Asians made her feel uncomfortable. Interesting. Sarah Palin attributes her leaving the Aloha State after just one semester to too much sunshine for an 18 year-old---as in beaches and academics are not a great mix for an Alaskan gal. Read Palin's book Going ...The mail jumpers of Lake Geneva
Sep 14th, 2009 at 12:30PM:
For the residents who live on waterfront property in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, the daily mail delivery comes by boat. The U.S. Mailboat Walworth makes the delivery every morning at 10am from June 15 to September 15, stopping at over 60 lakefront homes. At each dock, the mail girl - or the occasional mail boy - jumps from the boat, races to the mailbox while dodging rafts and dock furniture, ...Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, travel TV worth watching
Sep 9th, 2009 at 12:00PM: After last Tuesday's debut of Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, Travel Channel's expansion of Andrew Zimmern's scope past bizarre food, I pronounced the first episode that highlighted Cuba--and the second one that was an unusual travel though Belize--a smart and successful call.
Perhaps the new Travel Channel executives will pay attention to Aaron's post last month asking them to concentrate on ...Amazing Race 14, recap 11: Beijing, China's food is awesome--- and awful
May 5th, 2009 at 11:00AM: After last week's cliffhanger of Amazing Race 14 when Jaime and Cara arrived first at the Pit Stop to only find Phil pulling another yellow envelope behind his back, I thought that Jaime might throw a hissy fit, but no, she handled Phil's news like a trouper. Instead of winning a nifty trip to some exotic location, off this former cheerleader duo went in the dark of Beijing to Bai Hai Dong Men and ...Beef brain tacos and Haggis - eating the foods that scare you
Jan 26th, 2009 at 9:00AM: The past week has been an interesting one for me, food-wise. Last Monday I had a chance to sample a Mexican "beef brain" taco (de cabeza) and this weekend I found myself unexpectedly eating a plate of Haggis. You know - the Scottish dish made with a stomach-churning mixture of sheep's lungs, heart and liver mixed with spices and boiled in the casing of a sheep stomach? Yeah, that Haggis. While I ...AAA Great Vacations Expo: Andrew Zimmern, Jack Hanna and travel info galore
Jan 13th, 2009 at 5:00PM: Last year I went to a AAA virtual travel show. Although it was very cool indeed, this weekend's in person travel show opportunity--AAA Great Vacations Expo, is a perfect place to scout out travel options for 2009. The fact that it's in Columbus makes it a no brainer for me. If you can swing it, come.
First off, Andrew Zimmern is going to be there on Sunday. As a Bizarre Foods fan, it will be a ...Amazing Race 13 recap 8: Kazakhstan makes Bizarre Foods look tame
Nov 17th, 2008 at 3:30PM: India was easy compared to Kazakhstan--sort of. This week's Amazing Race 13 was a glance into some of the more unusual aspects of Kazakh culture. As teams sped through the streets of Almaty, even though much of the city looked western and urban with architecture that reflects its former Soviet Union ties, the teams experienced more of Kazakhstan's agricultural tradition than perhaps is apparent in ...Where spices come from. A tour of a spice plantation in Goa
Sep 29th, 2008 at 12:00PM:
If you're in a region of the world where spices are grown, take in a tour of a spice plantation. On last Tuesday's episode of Bizarre Foods, Andrew Zimmern went to a one in Goa.
Here is a video of a tour of a spice plantation in Goa (there are several) that points out the highlights of the various spices and how they are grown. The text captions tell what you're seeing. Along with the ...
Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Food's trip to an Ayurvedic health center in Goa
Sep 26th, 2008 at 1:00PM:
Although bizarre food was involved with Andrew Zimmern's trip to the Ayurvedic Natural Health Centre in Goa, that wasn't the main focus of the last part of Bizarre Food's Goa episode. (see post) Much of Zimmern's focus was highlighting the mind and body connection of the Ayurvedic method of achieving balance. Achieving balance is not so simple.
As he pointed out as he embarked on the road to ...Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Goa, the spice of life
Sep 25th, 2008 at 12:30PM: From the first shot of Goa in this week's episode of Bizarre Foods, I could smell the aromas. And that's a good thing. Although Zimmern said that the food in Goa is different than many parts of India, in New Delhi where I lived for two years, every spicy, sweet and sour taste that Zimmern mentioned could be found. That's because New Delhi was filled with people who started out somewhere else. For ...Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Sicily. Yep, the food is bizarre
Sep 23rd, 2008 at 5:30PM: Andrew Zimmern seemed positively giddy in last Tuesday's episode of Bizarre Foods as he ate his way around Sicily's bonanza of animal innards eats. First stop was Palermo, the capital where butcher shops display all sorts of animal parts, just like they've done for centuries. At Mercato Ballero, a bustling outdoor marketplace, Zimmern got busy eating with gusto.
"The cow stomachs are so fresh, ...
