Fierce Food: The Intrepid Diner's Guide to the Unusual, Exotic, and Downright Bizarre
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From the sublime to the deadly
London writer Weil conducts this global guide to exotic, often culturally celebrated food with wit, panache and practicality. Each entry even includes precise instructions for preparation and consumption, should you be so inclined.There's fugu, for example, the Japanese puffer fish that can prove fatal if incorrectly prepared. Or durian, the Philippine fruit that smells like rotting corpses. Or bat soup, the Guam festival dish, which may contain a deadly neurotoxin, depending on where your bat hales from. And the dung beetle larvae, about which no more need be said.There are more appetizing things, however. As in a real guidebook, Weil provides a symbol key so you can see at a glance if an entry is smelly, messy, revolting, has eyes, is an aphrodisiac, might kill you, or tastes like chicken.Hardly anything in this book seems to taste like chicken. Not lichen or cricket or blubber or fermented mares milk or sea cucumber or dog. Frogs do, of course,...
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Product Description
Bugs, brains, and boiled sheep—a truly extreme dining guide for fans of Anthony Bourdain’s Extreme Cuisine
Is comfort food getting a little too comfortable? Then grab a plate at the Fierce Food buffet, where the world’s most extraordinary foods are dished up for your pleasure. Start the meal with Mexican chapulines, or grasshoppers, and then move along to the Kazakhstan boiled sheep’s head, where the eyeball is reserved for the most honored guest. And if necessary, ease your queasy stomach with dried clay.
An alphabetical survey of the world’s most amazing and unusual edibles, Fierce Food describes what these foods are and where they’re from, and how they’re captured, foraged, or, even putrefied. Readers also learn how the foods are traditionally served and eaten-and best of all, what they taste like, because if you can’t actually bring yourself to eat Filipino embryonic duck eggs, reading about it is the next best thing. Fierce Food is a fascinating exploration of global cultures that definitively proves the old adage, “one man’s meat is another man's poison.” Top to learn more
No photos, but great descriptions.
It is true that photos would have been nice, but the descriptions are excellent. The author also takes time to include interesting quotes both historical and hysterical
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