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Extreme Cuisine: The Weird & Wonderful Foods that People Eat
enlarge	Authors: Jerry Hopkins, Anthony Bourdain, Michael Freeman Publisher: Periplus Editions Category: Book List Price: ~~$21.95~~ Buy Used: $6.96 You Save: $14.99 (68%) New (14) Used (18) from $6.96 Avg. Customer Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 82687 Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 352 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8 Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 ISBN: 079460255X Dewey Decimal Number: 641 UPC: 676251602555 EAN: 9780794602550 ASIN: 079460255X Publication Date: May 15, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: A good readable copy; all pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). May have some usage wear, stickers, cover creases, bumped corners, bent pages, remainder mark, previous owner label or name, inscription, notes, underlining and/or highlighting. Text only; no CDs, InfoTrack, Access Codes, or other inclusions. Shipping confirmation and tracking provided. 100% of your purchase helps Goodwill create jobs and change lives.

Editorial Reviews: Product Description Sit down for a meal with the locals on six continents-what they eat may surprise you. Extreme Cuisine examines 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 bad 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."

Customer Reviews: Not for readers with delicate stomachs. August 17, 2006 2 out of 2 found this review helpful Fascinating reading! In my travels I thought I had seen a lot of strange culinary customs but after reading this book I realize that I had barely scratched the surface. Apparently every living creature on this planet is a delicacy somewhere. Mannish Water ...a stew with sheep's head???? November 18, 2005 8 out of 13 found this review helpful I don't think so! Traditionally this is made in Jamaica with the Goats' head, tripe and (if you are lucky ) the testes. It is considered a soup. It rarely uses the meat which is reserved for the following course of curry goat. In fact prior to making the soup the head is 'singed' to remove the hair easily,this results in the soup having a delightful smoky flavour.The head is then chopped into bite sized pieces and the soup is slow cooked (best done in an old "kerosene" pan on a traditional Jamaican coal pot outside).Wedding Feasts, breaking ground for a new house,or a funeral were all reasons to kill a goat and have a "goat Feast" Jamaica has a sheep population which is very small ( most of the lamb consumed, is imported) but goats are commonly reared. A delightful read however, the book does help the reader to appreciate the gastronomic diversity that exists even today and some of its'history. Great Fun... with a Pinch of Salt January 13, 2005 3 out of 8 found this review helpful I'm enjoying this book, but some of it must be taken with a pinch of salt :-) There's lots of information about the weirdest things that people can eat, with some totally gross and unnecessary information (e.g., about how primates can be purchased in Africa, all grilled and chopped to pieces). Some of the info is really fascinating (e.g., that iguanas can have eggs harvested from them whilst they are alive, and patched up with some ash, and left to regenerate and scamper off). Read this book if you enjoy the odd curiousity now and then, and not because you want to be a gourmet cook of this stuff. Many of the recipes are probably not tried-and-tests, although my sense is that the factual information provided has been carefully fact-checked. Extraordinary Taste and Flavor September 12, 2004 10 out of 10 found this review helpful 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.

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