Inspiration

My inspiration comes from a few places. One, I always seem to be hungry. Two, a TV show I watch. It's called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. The host travels around the world trying all different foods, that while it may seem gross to us, it is a delicacy in their country. I find it quite interesting how pretty much anything you can imagine seems to be eaten in other countries. But that's the culture the people were raised on. And thirdly, I have worked in a restaurant the last 4-5 years, so I have been around food and see lots of flavors and different ways of preparing the food. But while working in the food business I have only worked in American cuisine style foods, and I have always wondered how it would feel in another country, eating the non traditional foods we eat here.

I have always wondered why different cultures have such a wide range of foods. Some of those food are very extreme, like eating every part of the animal. Nothing goes to waste in these countries. Even eating bugs is just and everyday cuisine. Its said that the bugs have lots of protein in them. I could never understand as to how people can eat such extreme foods and then have another country (US) be so appalled. There are many factors though that come into play as to why they eat the foods they do. Just by watching on TV you don't get the whole story as to why they eat what they do. You just see the food. We are used to eating whatever we want in America. We aren't restricted to foods because of religion, and what other countries may eat, is frowned upon here.

http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bizarre_Foods Bizarre Foods link.