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."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #351143 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

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

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About the Author
Jerry Hopkins is the author of 27 books, and co-author of the bestselling biography of Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive, which was No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 1980 and has more than 2 million copies in print. He has a Thai family and divides his time between Bangkok and a small village in Surin in Northeast Thailand. Photographer Michael Freeman began a full-time photographic career in 1973. He has photographed extensively in Asia, both for magazines such as Smithsonian, GEO and Conde Nast Traveler. Anthony Bourdain is the host of 'A Cook's Tour" on the Food Network and the executive chef at the brasserie Les Halles in New York. His books include A Cook's Tour and the best-selling Kitchen Confidential.

Customer Reviews

Extraordinary Taste and Flavor
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.

Not for readers with delicate stomachs.
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.

How Bizzare!
Strange foods from around the world. It is probably a blue print for the Food Network TV show.