Watching other people eat revolting things has become a new spectator sport in our reality TV culture. Perhaps this replaces earlier entertainments like gladiator fights and public hangings, thereby satisfying some primal desire to watch others suffer. Of course, these days everyone gets to go home at the end of the show–sometimes with money. Elliot Hester eats gross things not for prizes but for fun. Or something like that. On his continuous international jaunts around the globe (his Plane Insanity recounts his often miserable experiences working as a flight attendant), he visits some of the most un-tourist-friendly countries in the world; this book chronicles his gustatory adventures in fifty nations whose citizens view insects, pets, and innards a little differently than we do.
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