Eating to the Extreme: How Broadening Your Culinary Horizons Can Help Improve Our Food System
This piece, written by JBF Award winner and television host Andrew Zimmern, originally appeared in the February/March 2012 issue of JBF Notes, the James Beard Foundation's member newsletter. Don't miss out on future articles; become a member today!
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Extreme cuisine. Oddities. Fear Factor food. These are terms I hear almost everywhere I go. They are whispered in the corners of rooms by squeamish skeptics who make me out to be some kind of culinary pervert.
Long before my show Bizarre Foods was ever conceptualized, I was excited about jungle markets and the amazing foods I found there. I had traveled a lot as a young child and knew that a tiny, whole-roasted piglet I encountered abroad tasted way better than the dry... Read more >
News Feed: October 3, 2011
LA-based designer has fashioned the meat-lace and other food jewelry. [LAT]
The story of a failed attempt to patent PB&J. [Good]
Saveur curates a list of great global food blogs from around the planet. [Saveur]
Andrew Zimmern translates daring eats into meals for the not-so-brave. [F&W]
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News Feed: September 10
Top Chef’s missed opportunities in Washington, D.C. [Smithsonian]
Everyday artisanal wine. [LAT]
Andrew Zimmern: the board game. [Eater]
The democratization of French cuisine. [WSJ]
Budget (and delicious) Chicago. [Bon Appétit]
Awards Watch: Media & Book Awards, in Photos
While we wait for things to get going at Lincoln Center, here are some photos from last night's Media & Book Awards at Espace: (Photos by Kent Miller)
JBF President Susan Ungaro poses for a photo with
Kelly Choi, Andrew Zimmern, and friends
A row of reception cocktails
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Awards Watch: Broadcast Media Award Winners
We've just wrapped up the Broadcast Media Awards segment of the program—just in time for Karen DeMasco's white chocolate panna cotta with morello cherries and cherry sorbet. Highlight: a humbled and flattered Andrew Zimmern, upon accepting his award for TV Food Personality, gave a shout-out to Cookbook-Hall-of-Fame inductee Claudia Roden. "Claudia, you write about eyeballs and sheep testicles, and that's where I always like to start eating!" he declared. Here are the 2010 Broadcast Media Award winners: Audio Webcast or Radio Show: The Kojo Nnamdi Show Video Webcast: The Greenmarket: One Farmer’s Story, from seriouseats.com Television Segment: ABC News Nightline Television Show, On Location: Chefs A’ Field: King of Alaska Television Show, In Studio or Fixed Location: French Food at Home with Laura Calder Television Special:Categories
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Weekend reading: a letter from JBF president Susan Ungaro about our new Women in Culinary Leadership program http://t.co/6l9sbf5nQc
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