{"product_id":"the-bizarre-truth","title":"The Bizarre Truth - Culinary Misadventures Around the Globe","description":"Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series \u003ci\u003eBizarre Foods,\u003c\/i\u003e has an  extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and  sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew  in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied  shark in blood pudding in Iceland and Wolfgang Puck's Hunan style rooster balls in  Los Angeles.   For Zimmern, local cuisine—bizarre, gross or downright stomach turning  as it may be to us—is not simply what’s served at mealtime.  It is a primary avenue  to discovering what is most authentic—the bizarre truth—about cultures everywhere.   Having eaten his way around the world over the course of four seasons of \u003ci\u003eBizarre  Foods, \u003c\/i\u003eZimmern has now launched \u003ci\u003eBizarre Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, a new series on the Travel Channel,  and this, his first book, a chronicle of his journeys as he not only tastes the “taboo  treats” of the world, but delves deep into the cultures and lifestyles of far-flung  locales and seeks the most prized of the modern traveler’s goals:  The Authentic  Experience. Written in the smart, often hilarious voice he uses to narrate his TV  shows, Zimmern uses his adventures in “culinary anthropology” to illustrate such  themes 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 of  a 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 to  tail, local, fresh and organic food.  Zimmern takes readers into the back of a souk  in Morocco where locals are eating a whole roasted lamb; along with a conch fisherman  in Tobago, who may be the last of his kind;  to  Mississippi, where he dines on raccoon  and possum.  There, he writes, \"People said, 'That's roadkill!'  ‘No it's not,’ I  said. ‘It's a cultural story.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whether it’s a session with an Incan witch doctor  in Ecuador who blows fire on him, spits on him, thrashes him with poisonous branches  and beats him with a live guinea pig or drinking blood in Uganda and cow urine tonic  in India or eating roasted bats on an uninhabited island in Samoa, Zimmern cheerfully  celebrates the undiscovered destinations and weird wonders still remaining in our  increasingly globalized world.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50973382967584,"sku":"9780767931304","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780767931304.jpg?v=1764184805","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/the-bizarre-truth","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}