Extreme Cuisine: Exotic Tastes From Around the World
by:
Lonely Planet (author)
Eddie Lin (author)
Imagine tucking into grasshoppers as you wander the Mercado Benito market in Oaxaca, Mexico, or chowing down on juicy witchetty grubs on your travels through Central Australia - such meals can be the perfect entrée to a culture. In this book you'll find over 50 delicacies that creep, crawl,...
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Imagine tucking into grasshoppers as you wander the Mercado Benito market in Oaxaca, Mexico, or chowing down on juicy witchetty grubs on your travels through Central Australia - such meals can be the perfect entrée to a culture. In this book you'll find over 50 delicacies that creep, crawl, sizzle and spit, where they originated from and wher eyou can experience them. You may not salivate over blood, scorpions, chicken's knees or partially digested coffee beans, but travel long enough and you're bound to meet someone who does. Extreme Cuisine is sure to challenge your idea of what makes good eating.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781741798869 (1741798868)
ASIN: 1741798868
Publish date: November 1st 2009
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Series: Lonely Planet World Food
Best read only between meals if you're squeamish. Tarantulas in Cambodia, live sea worms in Samoa, maggot cheese in Italy (an actual illegal food!), cobra in Vietnam, scorpions on a stick in Thailand, and yes, even coffee beans plucked from the poop of a civet cat in Indonesia. All of these delight...
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