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Botswana: The Kalahari

By Andrew Zimmern on September 15, 2009 9:00 PM | Permalink | 26 Comments

I get asked the same questions all the time. You can probably guess them yourself pretty accurately ...

What's the weirdest thing you ever ate?

What's the worst thing you ever ate?

Does your family eat such an adventurous diet?

Do you ever get sick on the road?

Do you really do all that stuff yourself, jump off mountains, swim with sharks, eat rotted foods, or is it ever faked?

And so on ...

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Belize: On the Fringe

By Andrew Zimmern on September 8, 2009 9:00 PM | Permalink | 20 Comments

Belize sits on the fringe of modern life at the edges of a vast wilderness of ancient rituals and traditions, forests and villages where people today live comfortably with ghosts from a distant past ... a Mayan past, since Belize is one of the few South and Central American cultures to have never been colonized by the Spaniards.

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Visiting Cuba

By Andrew Zimmern on September 1, 2009 9:00 PM | Permalink | 111 Comments

In Cuba I did a lot of cool stuff, but none of it compared with what you didn't see on camera. Sure I took part in a Santeria purifying ceremony. I drove some of the 60,000 vintage American cars in Cuba, all pre-1959 when cars stopped being sent to the country. I dined in some amazing paladares, restaurants squeezed into family homes, part of the free enterprise legalized by Castro in the mid-1990s.

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Survivor

By Andrew Zimmern on June 16, 2009 2:52 AM | Permalink | 68 Comments

Welcome to the final blog and final episode of Bizarre Foods.* What a great choice for subject matter as well. Take one 240 pound, 47 year old, hypochondriacal Jewish New Yorker and drop him in a jungle for 48 hours and see if he doesn't die.

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The Best of Puerto Rico

By Andrew Zimmern on June 9, 2009 12:07 PM | Permalink | 116 Comments

Why go to Puerto Rico: Well, because it's the best secret hiding in plain sight in the Caribbean! ...and due to massive migration to the US over the years, it is said there are more Puerto Ricans living in New York than in San Juan. Growing up in New York City, I long ago got a big taste of Puerto Rico's culture and cuisine but not the full flavor of the island's diversity. I wanted to visit the "real" Puerto Rico - and believe me, this Caribbean island is no West Side Story. Steeped in an amalgam of complex influences, the cuisine clearly reflects the island's history: from original Taino native tribes to its Spanish occupation and subsequent influx of African slaves, to its current status as a Commonwealth of the United States. Nothing reveals the history of Puerto Rico more than the impact it has had on the cuisine. Spanish, African, and native Taino influences can be tasted in nearly every traditional Puerto Rican dish. Sound intriguing? I thought so.

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