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24-413: Bizarre Foods focuses on regional cuisine from around the world which is typically perceived as being disgusting, exotic or bizarre. In each episode, Zimmern focuses on the cuisine of a particular country or region. He typically shows how the food is procured, where it is served and, usually without hesitation, eats it. Originally a one-hour documentary titled Bizarre Foods of Asia , repeated showings on

48-547: A sled dog tour. Tongue sandwich, geoduck , live lobster, ceviche, pupusas , worm pretzels, maggot pupae, tarantula pops, teriyaki cockroaches, jellyfish salad, sea cucumber salad, goose intestine, frog congee , salo . Zimmern also visits a fish sauce factory. Zimmern visits the Sahakari Spice Farm and tries Ayurveda and yoga . Zimmern visited the Rungis market , a mustard shop, Paris's best cheese shop, and

72-529: A full meal and are served cold (such as mixed olives and cheese ) or hot (such as chopitos , which are battered , fried baby squid ; or patatas bravas , spicy potatoes). In some bars and restaurants in Spain and across the globe, tapas have evolved into a sophisticated cuisine. In some Central American countries, such snacks are known as bocas . In parts of Mexico, similar dishes are called botanas . An individual appetizer (or single order of an item)

96-531: A native of Portland . Zimmern hosted a holiday pitch-in party with chefs and friends he made around the world. It was at a historic mansion in Minneapolis and the food was cooked at the Calhoun Beach Club . Zimmern takes part in a spiritual possession ceremony while in one village. Beginning with Season 7, the show has been retitled Bizarre Foods America. The format remains the same but focuses more on

120-484: A particular region. Regional cuisines are often named after the geographic areas or regions that they originate from. [REDACTED] Pub grub - a pie , along with a pint . Public houses are a part of British , Irish , Scottish , and Australian culture . [REDACTED] American Southern food is often traditional, or "old-fashioned", as seen on a sign for the Granny Cantrell's restaurants in

144-568: A sample of the dishes available on a "tapa" (“pot cover” in Spanish). In another theory, offered by the Joy of Cooking , the original tapas were thin slices of bread or meat which sherry drinkers in Andalusian taverns used to cover their glasses between sips. This was a practical measure meant to prevent fruit flies from hovering over the sweet sherry (see below for more explanations). The meat used to cover

168-467: A snail farm. Zimmern went to a vegan supper and a Hispanic family's feast. Featuring special guest chefs Wolfgang Puck , Ben Ford and Ani Phyo and Los Angeles food blogger Eddie Lin [1] . In Addis Ababa , Zimmern shopped at Africa's largest market and in Harar he fed meat to wild hyenas. Zimmern went lobster fishing with Linda Greenlaw and judged a Deathmatch Maine Bizarre Foods contest with his father,

192-615: A stake. Kinabuchs : seaweed, mussels on a half shell, grilled tuna belly, snails cooked with coconut, tuna collars grilled. Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park , mangrove worms. Ouarzazate : Tajine with chicken and vegetables, mint tea , grilled kidneys, kefta , sausages. Essaouira : cuttlefish , stingray , sardines . Eureka : couscous with goat and vegetables. Chahramans Restaurant, Marrackech : Pastilla with pigeon, Briouat . Jemaa el-Fnaa : poached calf's brain. Motes de la Magdalena : menudo ( tripe soup), cuero de librillo (outer lining of

216-594: A tool of the Spanish Inquisition. There are many tapas competitions throughout Spain. Beginning in 2005 the city of Valladolid in Northwest Spain has hosted a national tapas competition each November. Interest in this event outside of Spain spurred the International School of Culinary Arts to hold an International Tapas Competition for Culinary Schools, starting in 2009. Various schools from around

240-505: Is a tapa . The word " tapas ", a plural, is derived from the Spanish verb tapar , "to cover", a cognate of the English "top". Multiple theories for the term's use for appetizers exist. One theory holds that in pre-19th-century Spain few innkeepers at posadas , albergues or bodegas offering meals and rooms for travellers could write and few travellers read, so guests were offered

264-445: Is based upon traditional cuisine : "A traditional cuisine is a coherent tradition of food preparation that rises from the daily lives and kitchens of a people over an extended period in a specific region of a country, or a specific country, and which, when localized, has notable distinctions from the cuisine of the country as a whole." Regional food preparation traditions, customs and ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to

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312-462: The Travel Channel drew consistent, considerable audiences. In late 2006, TLC decided to turn the documentary into a weekly, one-hour show with the same premise and with Zimmern as the host. In 2009, Zimmern took a break from Bizarre Foods to work on one season of the spin-off Bizarre World . Tokyo: Getemono bar, at Asadachi (1-2-14 Nishi-Shinjuku) raw pig's testicles , Frog sashimi , plus

336-725: The United States rather than international travel. Starting with season 12, Bizarre Foods America has episodes in the other countries of the Americas. New episodes have been shot in Cartagena, Colombia ; Lima, Peru ; Ft. Worth, Texas ; Copper River (Alaska) ; Nashville, Tennessee ; Atlanta, Georgia ; the Florida Keys ; and Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada. A spin-off series of half-hour episodes that focused on famed destinations' classic foods—where they came from, how they're prepared, and

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384-424: The best way to enjoy them. Focused on general fare and not bizarre foods. A DVD set (2 discs) called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Collection 1 was released on January 8, 2008. It includes the following episodes: A second DVD set (2 discs) called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Collection 2 was released on October 7, 2008. It includes the following episodes: Regional cuisine From Misplaced Pages,

408-2736: The cow stomach), guatita with the inner lining of cow stomach. Otavalo : motes , roast pork with skin, fried cheese empanada , elixir with aloe vera , jugo de sabila , and vitamin extracts. Puerto Francisco de Orellana , Napo River : lemon ants , piranha , coconut grubs , chicha . Zimmern participates in a cleansing ritual. Tapas Casa Botín : Cochinillo asado , baby eels, baby squid braisend on their ink. La Zapatería : cruncy pig ears, snails, polbo á feira (octopus), bull's tails Toño Sánchez : callos , casserole with blood sausage and tripe Market : mojama , criadillas (bull testicles), tripe. Museo del Jamón : Serrano , Ibérico , Bellota , head cheese . La trainera : Goose barnacle , shrimp, turbot , crab. Barcelona : La Bouqueria : razor clams , deep-fried worms, crickets. La Gardunya : Calf's brain, horchata Les Cols : Rooster comb risotto Ferran Adrià : El Bulli. Maurice, Louisiana : Herbert's Specialty Meats , Turducken , Soop's : boudin , stuffed beef tongue New Orleans : Cochon restaurant, boudinballs, head cheese, smoked ox stew, deep fried chicken liver . Hattiesburg : Leathe's restaurant , opossum , raccoon; Serendipity Deli and Restaurant : chitterlings . Mobile : Wintzell's Oyster House , fried green vinegar pickled peppers, fried green tomatoes with crayfish sauce, 33 oysters . Alligator Alley , The Wash House Restaurant : alligator feast. Pensacola , Fish House restaurant : black grouper throats, gazpachee salad with hardtack . Chef's restaurant : flathead mullet deep fried, gizzard , fried mullet roe. Swansea : faggot , cockles and whelks , laverbread . Cotswolds : jugged hare , kidney and liver meatballs, Christmas pudding . London : Harrods , jellied eels , blood tongue sausage. In East End, F. Cooke, pie and mash , stewed eels. Borough Market , Roast restaurant, pigeon, ox heart grilled with bone marrow sauce, herring roes, Neil Yard Dairy , Stinking Bishop cheese Banger shop , fresh Italian gelato . Trinidad : Original souse king , souse, pig's and chicken's feet, cow skin soup. Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago , Street food : roti stuffed with goat and liver, doubles , cow heel's soup. Maracas Beach : callaloo , "Bake n' shark sandwich, fried bread stuffed with deep fried shark with sauces and vegetables, king mackerel sashimi. Oaxaca : grasshopper ( chapulines ), armadillo , tacos, jumiles , ant eggs ( escamoles ), maguey worms , mosquito eggs, chicken feet, red snapper ( huachinango ), corn smut ( huitlacoche ), mole and duck enchilada . Mexico City Zimmern goes on

432-456: The 💕 Cuisine based upon national regions See also: Cuisine , Global cuisine , and List of cuisines [REDACTED] Hyderabadi Biryani , an Indian meat and rice dish. Regional cuisine is cuisine based upon national, state or local regions. Regional cuisines may vary based upon food availability and trade, varying climates , cooking traditions and practices, and cultural differences. One noteworthy definition

456-831: The frog's beating heart, lizard sake , at Yaki Hamna : Giant snails, fugu , at Hibari sushi , raw octopus sushi . at Suppon-Maki restaurant: Suppon (turtle soup) + drink: turtle blood with sake and turtle hearts. Yakitori restaurant: chicken heart yakitori, keel bones, chicken butts, rooster balls. Kobe : Kobe beef . Bangkok : at Silver Palace , bird's nest soup with Hasma , Rambutan , grilled fresh frogs Chiang Mai : pork sausage, fruit bat . Penang : sambal with fish roe , belacan , fermented shrimp paste, poured tea, horseshoe crab , fish maw , durian . At Balaw Balaw in Angono, Rizal : Balaw-balaw sauce, with fermented shrimp paste , soup Number Five (bull's rectum and testicles soup), uok in adobo , white worms from

480-475: The larvae of crickets or beetles found in fallen coconut trees, crispy fried Alagaw leaves, ginatang bilo-bilo. At Everybody's Café in San Fernando, Pampanga : Dinuguan , a blood stew, crickets of rice fields cooked in adobo style, Betute Tugak (stuffed frog with pork). Puerto Princesa : Banana skewers, bananas rolled in brown sugar and deep-fried with caramelized sugar crust, fried chicken intestines on

504-469: The sherry was normally ham or chorizo , which are both very salty and activate thirst. Because of this, bartenders and restaurant owners created a variety of snacks to serve with sherry , thus increasing their alcohol sales. The tapas eventually became as important as the sherry. Tapas have evolved through Spanish history by incorporating new ingredients and influences. Most of the Iberian Peninsula

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528-403: The south of Spain during the time of the Spanish Inquisition as a means of publicly identifying conversos , Jews who had converted to Christianity. Since tapas often consist in part of ham or other non-kosher foodstuffs, the reluctance of the conversos to eat whatever tapas dish was offered to them could be taken as a tacit admission that they had not abandoned their Jewish faith, thus tapas were

552-1132: The world Fusion cuisine National dish References [ edit ] ^ "Region." (Definition). Merriam-Webster dictionary . Accessed June 2011. ^ "The American Food Revolutions: Cuisines in America." Eldrbarry.net . Accessed June 2011. ^ "Rediscover the flavors and traditions of true American cuisine!" Whatscookingamerica.net . Accessed June 2011. ^ Public House Britannica.com; Subscription Required. Retrieved 03-07-08. ^ Cronin, Michael; O'Connor, Barbara (2003). Barbara O'Connor (ed.). Irish Tourism: image, culture, and identity . Tourism and Cultural Change. Vol. 1. Channel View Publications. p. 83. ISBN   978-1-873150-53-5 . ^ "Find Your Local! - All about Scottish Pubs." Insiders-scotland-guide.com . Accessed July 2011. ^ (Australian) "Drinking etiquette." Convict Creations. Retrieved 24-04-11. External links [ edit ] eNotes - Encyclopedia of Food and Culture The Global Gastronomer - Cuisines of

576-504: Was invaded by the Romans in 218 B.C., who introduced more extensive cultivation of the olive and irrigation methods following their arrival. The discovery of the New World brought the introduction of tomatoes , sweet and chili peppers , maize (corn), and potatoes , which were readily accepted and easily grown in Spain's microclimates . It has also been claimed that tapas originated in

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