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Strange Foods:

Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies: An Epicurean Adventure Around the World
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Periplus Editions (HK), Limited, 1999 - Cooking - 232 pages
Chock-full of bizarre gastronomic information gathered from the far-flung reaches and stirred up with bits of anthropological and autobiographical information, "Strange Foods" is truly a masterpiece about what we eat. 250 color photos.

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Review: Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies; An Epicurean Adventure Around the World

User Review  - Sae-chan - Goodreads

Not many that Indonesians don't eat. Even less that I found appalling... Read full review

Review: Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies; An Epicurean Adventure Around the World

User Review  - Judith - Goodreads

WARNING: Don't read this one when you are eating or preparing for a meal. It will spoil your appetite...or get your saliva going, it depends. I'm still amazed at how adaptable we humans are. And ingenious, we eat foods that, were processing not highly developed, would kill us. Read full review

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About the author (1999)

Father Joe Maier "is a contributor to the "Bangkok Post," where many stories about the Klong Toey slum first appeared.
"Foreword by Jerry Hopkins, author of "Extreme Cuisine "and "No One Here Gets Out Alive.

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TitleStrange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies: An Epicurean Adventure Around the World
ContributorJerry Hopkins
Editionillustrated
PublisherPeriplus Editions (HK), Limited, 1999
ISBN9625931546, 9789625931548
Length232 pages
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Cooking / Essays & Narratives
Cooking / General
Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / International
  
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