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Andrew Zimmern brings his show to WV to sample squirrel, bear, and souce:thumbup: I really like this show, most of the time it makes me hungry:D In one episode he focuses on wild edible greans including Stinging Neddle:eek:
 
Yeah, he came to NC, too. He eats deer, squirrel, rabbit, etc. Pretty nice show. Show's some nice shots of Cherokee and Asheville.
 
WVHILLS said:
Andrew Zimmern brings his show to WV to sample squirrel, bear, and souce:thumbup: I really like this show, most of the time it makes me hungry:D In one episode he focuses on wild edible greans including Stinging Neddle:eek:
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Watched it last night. Wished I could have been there with him.

I'll be in Elkins, WV in June. Save me some 'posum ;).
 
I still have a sucker with a real scorpion in the middle that I am trying to get brave enough to eat.

I love watching this show as well as Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.
 
It is a great show and he does eat some weird stuff. :thumbup: :cool: :thumbup:

It’s amazing to the see him enjoying some really bizarre food, but my favorite scenes are when he can’t stomach it. :eek:



"If you're not living on the edge, …you're taking up too much space."

Big Mike

Forest & Stream
 
As for possum, any critter that crawls up a dead cow's arse to have its babies is NOT food in my opinion. Maybe if I was starving and all I could get was a possum.
 
I'll have to check this out!
 
I liked that episode about Appalachia, especially the deer roasted underground and eating the squirrel brains....gives me some ideas for the upcoming Fall Hunting Season.
 
bobbywett said:
I liked that episode about Appalachia, especially the deer roasted underground and eating the squirrel brains....gives me some ideas for the upcoming Fall Hunting Season.
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Avoid squirrel brains

By SANDRA BLAKESLEE August 29, 1997 NY Times
Doctors in Kentucky have issued a warning that people should not eat squirrel brains, a regional delicacy, because squirrels may carry a variant of mad cow disease that can be transmitted to humans and is fatal.
Although no squirrels have been tested for mad squirrel disease, there is reason to believe that they could be infected, said Dr. Joseph Berger, chairman of the neurology department at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Elk, deer, mink, rodents and other wild animals are known to develop variants of mad cow disease that collectively are called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

In the last four years, 11 cases of a human form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, have been diagnosed in rural western Kentucky, said Dr. Erick Weisman, clinical director of the Neurobehavioral Institute in Hartford, Ky., where the patients were treated. "All of them were squirrel-brain eaters," Weisman said. Of the 11 patients, at least six have died.

Within the small population of western Kentucky, the natural incidence of this disease should be one person getting it every 10 years or so, Weisman said. The appearance of this rare brain disease in so many people in just four years has taken scientists by surprise.

While the patients could have contracted the disease from eating beef and not squirrels, there has not been a single confirmed case of mad cow disease in the United States, Weisman said. Since every one of the 11 people with the disease ate squirrel brains, it seems prudent for people to avoid this practice until more is known, he said.
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http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/victim23.html
 
Big Mike said:
Yeah...Bourdain's show is top notch... :thumbup:


...and most of what he eats is a bit more palletable. :cool:






"If you're not living on the edge, …you're taking up too much space."

Big Mike

Forest & Stream
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Agreed! Plus Tony also has some hawties on some of his shows...sometimes..His trip to Spain was an example..girl eating the grilled onions made my dirty mind wander :D
 
I swear I've gained ten pounds watching the shows on travel channel. Man vs Food, No Reservations, and this show. Always with the grilled meats. Mmmmmm...grilled meats.:D
 
I thought the episode where A.Z. went to Maine was also pretty good.
He visited the Maine wilderness and ate bean-hole beans and Beaver :D
which is supposed to be very lean and healthy. He also foraged for wild plants
such as fiddleheads, stinging nettles and cattail shoots. He also went lobstering
and was treated to a traditional Maine lobster bake ... all good stuff
 
Thats a great show...and I would like to try a lot (not all) of that food he eats...though I have yet to ever like sea food...
 
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