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...host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, Andrew Zimmern has had the job for the past four years of facing down the weirdest dishes found across the world - from cow hooves and juicy cheese worms to penis soup. TIME talked to Zimmern about the show and his new book, The Bizarre Truth, which chronicles some of his more memorable eating adventures to make the point that the best way to understand the world is to show up hungry...
Speaking of a changing world, in the book you describe some long-lost food practices that are making comebacks. When we traveled to Nicaragua, a local chef knew we were coming. He had heard about this cheese Nicaraguans used to make, which died with the Sandinista movement 30 years ago. It's a fresh cheese they hung in the jungle, and it would become infested with maggots, and then they would eat it - it was an increased protein source. So this chef did the same thing, and we show up and cut into it, and there's maggots crawling...
...your book is about this kind of experiential eating. Three or four years ago, I would've said we need to get snout-to-tail eating out of high-end restaurants and back out amongst the population at large, where it belongs. I think because of the economic downturn, we have more people turning to those things on their own. What is luckily happening is that in a lot of these smaller countries there are locals who are saying, "We have a really viable product here in culinary tourism, and if we pave over and plow under our indigenous culture...
Professor Michael J. Sandel—who teaches the popular Moral Reasoning course on the subject—explained his philosophy about justice as argued in his new book, “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” at a packed panel discussion with three political experts at the Institute of Politics Forum last night. Sandel explained the three basic schools of thought behind justice, succinctly represented by the words “Utility”—seeking the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people; “Consent?...
Tushar Amin, 33, Editor, FHM The first thing you must do is go to a very small place in Kala Ghoda called the Magna Book Gallery & Nutrition Centre, tel: (91-22) 2267 1763. It's an old café that most people don't even know about, on the balcony of a bookshop. You'll get very good herbal teas and sandwiches there, and it's the perfect meeting place before going out for the evening...