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

by Jerry Hopkins

Book Overview

If M.F.K. Fisher had written for Rolling Stone, if she had lived and eaten with the locals in six continents as Jerry Hopkins has, she may very well have written something like Strange Foods. Hopkins,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9625931546
• ISBN13: 9789625931548
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Periplus Editions
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

me so hungry

This is one of the best coffee table books EVER created. The entries are strange but often times hilarious.

A Darn Good Book

At first I bought this book as a coffee table book: intriguing writing, great photos, and a "strange" subject. But the book is more than this. It is a gentle commentary about how we humans often view the familiar as normal, and the other fellow's familiar as "strange". Mr. Hopkins amazing life experiences make this a book with a good story.

Anthropolists' Delight

I bought this book for the shock value. It is a great conversation piece; the topics are definately bizarre. But upon reading it, I became more surprised at the academic way each subject (animal/insect, etc.) was handled. Surpisingly, it is a book that is more thought provoking than shocking. The quality photographs give it a National Geographic look and feel.

Outstanding writing and photos!

You have got to see this book! There are some truly unbelievable things in it. Put this on your coffee table or in your waiting room and you will get conversation like no other!