Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Difference between revisions

# Air date Location Notes/Featured Bizarre Foods 23 (1) September 9, 2008 Phuket, Thailand Fried grasshoppers, pork liver and beef stomach and intestine soups, coconut balls, stretched squid, stuffed mackerel, wasp larvae, stir-fried stingray, mole crabs, wasabi-, chili-, and tom yum-flavored cashews and cashew apple juice at a cashew factory, red weaver ants, forest lizards, fish stomach sauce, deep-fried fish skin, horseshoe crab, sea whelk. 24 (2) September 16, 2008 Sicily, Italy Cow stomach soup, mystery meat soup, beef spleen sandwich, sardine meatballs, gourmet cow’s mouth, Cerda Artichoke Festival: fried, roasted, marinated, and frittata artichoke, and artichoke gelato on a bun, chocolate rabbit, cinnamon pudding, bottarga, tuna heart and sperm, cuttlefish eggs and pasta with ink, sea snails. 25 (3) September 23, 2008 Goa, India Bora berry, chouricos (spicy pig offal and fat sausage), pickled mackerel, vindaloo, hilsa fish roe, Bombay duck, chicken xacuti, pomfret, prawns, chickpea sandwich, golgappa (chickpea-stuffed pastries), chili fritters, betel nuts, sorpotel, mushroom and lentil curry, potatoes and rice in sour mango sauce cow urine herb drink

Zimmern visits the Sahakari Spice Farm and tries Ayurveda and yoga.

26 (4) September 30, 2008 Samoa Samoan apple, se’a (sea cucumber intestines), pork pies, mutton, umu-cooked eel, whole pig cooked in ‘umu oven, raw tuna eyeballs and still-beating heart, giant clam, roasted tree grubs, fruit bat roasted on coconut husks. 27 (5) October 7, 2008 Paris Terrine, head cheese, lardo, pressed duck with duck sauce and marrow, blood sausage, squab, gourmet mustard, truffles, refined cheese, rabbit liver, bacon and eggs ice cream, lamb tongues, sea urchin, snail caviar, escargot.

Zimmern visited the Rungis market, a mustard shop, Paris’s best cheese shop, and a snail farm.

28 (6) October 14, 2008 Los Angeles Head cheese, slow-cooked piglet in goose fat, pig ears, tongue salad, and eyeballs, scorpions on toast, South American ants on string potatoes, crickets, worms, shot of wheatgrass and barley, “rawsagna” with ground sunflower seeds, flax, cherry tomatoes, and dates, hemp-sunburger on flax flatbread, coconut-durian smoothie, soondae, hot dog burrito, cow’s tongue sandwich from the taco truck, monkfish with caviar, sea urchin roe, Santa Barbara shrimp sashimi, octopus tirodido, menudo, corn smut, nopal salad, grasshoppers, whole catfish, deep-fried chicken testicles, Peking duck, cockscombs.

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].

29 (7) October 21, 2008 Halloween (special) This special discussed unfamiliar foods that are considered scary and what made Westerners uneasy about them. Zimmern then hosted a Halloween party with Bizarre Foods fans where he served his favorite fares. He discussed drinking blood with the food historian and author Linda Civitello, which is based on culture and status. The anthropology director at the University of Minnesota, William Beeman, explained about fear of bugs and organ meat, saying that people are more likely to eat insects with a side. The chef Patrick Lue Chai, at whose restaurant Zimmern ate in Los Angeles, cooked fried crickets with potato strings as well as other insects for the party. Appetizers at Zimmern’s feast were tarantula, waterbugs, grasshoppers, hissing cockroaches, and Thai stir-fried ants and crickets. The entrees were fresh cow’s blood, raw goat kidney, chicken feet and guinea pig. 30 (8) October 28, 2008 Hawaii Imu-cooked kalua pig, poi, aʻama crab, heʻe luau (octopus w/ taro leaves), bonefish, Spam musubi, pineapple upside-down cake with Spam, guava-glazed Spam, tempura Spam, naʻau (wild boar offal and blood), ono with lavender sauce, lamb with lavender salt and pepper, goat with Maui onion and chili peppers, Hawaiian fusion – natto, clams, wasabi, and soy, local escargot, caviar, seaweed, goat stew with intestines and bile, opihi. 31 (9) November 11, 2008 Ethiopia Fermented enset fiber pancakes and porridge, raw sautéed beef, ayib cheese, unfiltered honey, berbere, goat organs in ox intestines, crepe with chicken and onion, coffee, sorghum popcorn, fresh raw beef and camel kidney.

In Addis Ababa, Zimmern shopped at Africa’s largest market and in Harar he fed meat to wild hyenas.

32 (10) November 18, 2008 Maine Flounder roe soup with seaweed, sea cucumber, fiddleheads, beaver chili, bean-hole beans, wild ramps, stinging nettle soup, Indian cucumber, cattail, raw lobster, whelks, cod sperm chowder, monkfish head stew, BBQ junebugs, oysters with ramps, snails with periwinkle and butter, moose and venison terrine, duck tartare.

Zimmern went lobster fishing with Linda Greenlaw and judged a Deathmatch Maine Bizarre Foods contest with his father, a native of Portland.

33 (11) November 25, 2008 Happy Holidays (Special) Braised dried oysters with black hair moss, English goose, pig’s feet and lentils, snot (sweet potato starch), cow cod soup, rabbit and wheatberries, Swedish meatballs, cuttlefish eggs, pork intestine soup with red dates, tobacco-wrapped cheese, porcupine stuffed with potatoes and bacon, sweet noodle kugel, spritz cookies, sweet fish-shaped cake.

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.

34 (12) December 2, 2008 Uganda Lungfish, white ants lured by drumming, matoke (steamed green bananas), braised goat with peanut and sesame sauce, grasshopper, squirrel, millet bread, goat stomach lining and intestines, Nile perch, rotten goat meat from a Ugandan drive-through, roasted corn, mixed grill (intestine-encased organs), cane rat with tilapia from Lake Victoria and raw Nile crocodile.

Zimmern takes part in a spiritual possession ceremony while in one village.

35 (13) December 9, 2008 Japan River eels, sea squirts, stonefish liver, Bluefin tuna eyeballs, mayonnaise fondue and milkshake, octopus egg sac, sea cucumber egg jerky, turtle blood sake, octopus ice cream, pit viper ice cream, beef tongue ice cream, horumon, takoyaki, raw horse mane, funazushi, squid ink soup, stewed tuna eyes in mirin, giant sea snail, sea snake soup (smelling sea snake anus in the market), raw goat testicles with scrotum. 36 (14) February 10, 2009 Sexy food This episode was a Valentine’s Day special. It was a compilation episode about the cultural connections between food and sex, featuring foods that are supposed to be aphrodisiacs or are made of sexual organs of animals. Zimmern visited the Mall of America where he gave out samples of bull testicles to see people’s reactions and if they would eat it when told it would help their sex life. The author and food historian Linda Civitello talked about the history of eating reproductive organs. At the Midtown Global Market, Zimmern interviewed people about foods that were supposed aphrodisiacs, including chocolate and oysters. He handed out chocolate-covered meal worms and crickets that tricked people into thinking they were pretzels. At the end, Zimmern and some others ate sushi off a naked woman, a practice called nyotai mori. 37 (15) March 3, 2009 Surf It Up Compilation episode