Extra Credit Video Summaries

Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern [Sicily]

Andrew Zimmern is a foodie who travels the world tasting “bizarre” foods that the native people enjoy. In this episode, Zimmern travels to Sicily and visits four towns there: Palermo, Cerda, Viagrande, and Marzamemi. Palermo is a big port city where people from all over the world visit. With a guide, Zimmern explores a Palermo market place and sees baby lamb’s head, raw brains, cow stomach, and a mystery meat that customers have to buy without seeing the meat. Then he travels to a local eatery and has a cow spleen sandwich, Sicily’s original fast food. Still in Palermo, he goes to one of the best restaurants in the city, eating sardine meatballs stuffed with raisons, and caponada (eggplant and pepper relish). Then at one of the most expensive restaurants in Palermo, Zimmern eats cow nerves and tendons, tongue, and inner cheek. In Cerda, Zimmern attends the artichoke festival and tastes many different types of artichokes. In Viagrande Zimmern takes a cooking class from a local chef, making and tasting Chocolate Rabbit, all parts of the rabbit. Then he tastes Cinnamon Pudding. In Marzamemi, Zimmern wakes up early to go fishing with local fishermen. Then he goes to a fish processing factory, picking up tuna testicles. Zimmern eats lunch with the fisherman, eating sea snails, tuna sperm, tuna heart, and a whole Cuttlefish (Sepia). Zimmern admires the people of Sicily and the simple way they prepare their food.

Martin Yan’s Chinatowns – Chinatown Markets

Yan travels to San Francisco’s Chinatown, the center of Chinese American culture, where they spend their daily lives, working, living, shopping, eating, etc. Yan focuses on the process of curation in San Francisco Chinatown, where local vendors hang their meat to rest on the roof of their stores. There is another store where the shop owner sells live chicken, and fresh produce. Then Yan eats a meal at Pearl City, a restaurant in Chinatown and gets to tour the kitchen, watching how all the food is prepared. Back in Yan’s kitchen, he shows viewers how to make a traditional Chinese meal, drunken shrimp soup. Then he makes beef with many mushrooms and five flavored chicken and eggplant.