Strange Foods

by Hopkins, Jerry; Freeman, Michael

• ISBN13: 9789625931548
• ISBN10: 9625931546
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Periplus Editions

Summary

If M.F.K. Fisher had written for Rolling Stone, if she had lived and eaten with the locals in six continents as Jerry Hopkins has, she may very well have written something like Strange Foods. Hopkins, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling biography of lizard king Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive, brings his considerable storytelling ability to bear in a culinary travelogue of world cuisine sure to stimulate the most jaded palate.

Table of Contents

One man's meat...another's poison	p. viii
Mammals	p. 2
Dogs and cats	p. 4
Horse	p. 10
Rat and mouse	p. 14
Bats	p. 20
Primates and other bush meat	p. 26
Bison, water buffalo, and yak	p. 36
Whale	p. 42
Guts	p. 46
Ears, eyes, noses, lungs, tongues, lips, gums, glands, and feet	p. 50
Genitilia	p. 56
Urine	p. 60
Human flesh	p. 62
Reptiles and water creatures	p. 70
Snake	p. 72
Lizards	p. 78
Alligator and crocodile	p. 84
Frog and toad	p. 90
Shark	p. 94
Fugu	p. 98
Jellyfish	p. 104
Snails and slugs	p. 106
Worms	p. 110
Fish eggs	p. 112
Birds	p. 118
Ostrich and emu	p. 120
Song birds, pigeons, and doves	p. 124
Birds' nest	p. 128
Balut	p. 136
Insects, spiders, and scorpions	p. 142
Grasshoppers	p. 144
Ants and termites
Spiders and scorpions	p. 154
Beetles	p. 158
Crickets and cicadas	p. 164
Butterflies and moths	p. 168
Flies	p. 172
Plants	p. 178
Poisonous plants	p. 180
Flowers	p. 186
Cactus	p. 190
Durian	p. 194
Leftovers	p. 202
Blood	p. 204
Live and almost live	p. 208
Fermented food	p. 212
Fake food	p. 216
Gold, silver, and pearls	p. 222
Dirt	p. 226
Selected bibliography	p. 230
Acknowledgments	p. 232
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