In Bad Taste?: The Science and Adventures Behind Food Delicacies

By Massimo Francesco Marcone

Book Overview

Follows the author as he travels the globe to investigate, taste, and reveal the hidden secrets behind the world's most bizarre and exotic foods - often risking life and limb at the hands of rebel... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552638820
• ISBN13: 9781552638828
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A palatably wonderful tour of culinary oddities

Food science professor Dr. Massimo Francesco Marcone, popularly dubbed the "Indiana Jones" of the food world, presents In Bad Taste?: The Adventures and Science Behind Food Delicacies, a behind-the-scenes look at some of the rarest and most bizarre edible commodities. From a rare type of coffee brewed from beans that have been excreted through the digestive system of a catlike Indonesian creature, to edible Malaysian bird nests, In Bad Taste? examines the question: why do people eat these unusual foods, and exactly what is it that makes a food a delicacy - its rarity, the bizarreness of its origins, or simply that others are willing to pay a lot of money to eat it? Or is there some other, truly quantifiable difference? A palatably wonderful tour of culinary oddities enthusiastically recommended for armchair gourmets and anyone curious about the most unusual dishes celebrated as food worldwide.