puff 444 Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies

Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies: An Epicurean Adventure Around the World (Hardcover)
by Jerry Hopkins (Author), Michael Freeman (Photographer)

Here's the story of this book. One day I was at the old Barnes and Noble off of main street and this book was on the self and I noticed it while looking for a cook book. It was great! I almost bought it and then decieded not to. Well over the next 3 years I kept thinking about how I should have bought that book that I couldn't find when I went back to look (probably because it's out of print). Finally, I thought to look on Amazon, and low and libby, there it was! So guess what?????????


I bought it!

It's such a great book. After leaving it on my coffee table (and I Don't drink coffee) and having all my "friends" read it, I took it to my classroom and now I share it with my students, especially when I am teaching sociology. It's such a good teaching tool. I wish there were more pictures, but even without more (and it has a lot, I just want more), it's a great book. Obviously some students get a little grossed out, but that's what makes it so captivating, some of this book is like that accident we just have to look at but more positive. My favorite are the parts on Balut, Placenta (no pictures), Rats, Insects, Rotten Fish, and so many more! As long as you have a little bit of an open mind (or a lot), I am sure you'll like this book! Also, here's a list of things I've eaten to date that might be considered werid:

---cultural foods that are uncommon in my area----
Cow tongue
Blood Sausage
Gefilte Fish
Menudo
Haggis
Sails
Frogs Legs
All sushi
Fugu Fish (in Japan)
Kangaroo
Wild Boar
Lama
Rattlesnake
Elk
Alligator
Bufflo Oysters


---cultural foods that are more different---
grasshoppers
silk worms
scorpions
chimbai ants (they're pretty big)
meal worms
crickets
taruantula (home made too!, WARNING TRICKY TO PREPARE THOUGH)
wasp larve
giant water bettle
Balut

well, I am probably forgetting somethings, but you get the idea, I love to try new things!! I recommend "Typhoon" the resturant if you're in Southern California, and I recommend "Seattle's Finist Meats" if you want to order some interesting meat, I think they ship nationally? Good luck opening your mind, just don't let your brain fall out, THAT I won't eat, gross....

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I am sure I am fogetting something here, but...
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