Comidas Exóticas

Andrew heads to Kazakhstan, the heart of Central Asia. He hunts for rabbits with a golden eagle, suffers a blow while milking a horse and feasts on everything from sheep brains to fermented camel's milk to smoked horse sausage.

Andrew hits the food mecca of Taipei, Taiwan. He faces stinky tofu in a mountainside factory, learns the secret to turning eggs into hard-as-iron street food and masters pulling the longest and strongest noodles.

Andrew heads to Rome for tastes that stand the test of time. He feasts on lamb brains and veal intestine in the shadow of an ancient dump, eats cheese aged in millennia-old caves and nets eel with Rome's last eel fisherman.

Andrew heads to gleaming and gritty Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He learns the secrets to milking camels, fermenting fish in the desert sun, making musical organ meat mush and finding manna from heaven at the spice market.

Andrew heads to Panama City, one of the world's crossroads. He feasts on chicken foot souse and iguana meat and eggs, hits the street for beef lung and aphrodisiac smoothies and noshes on Chinese-Panamanian Kosher cheese.

Andrew travels to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Hitting the city streets at night, he feasts on sucking snails and duck tongues. Then, on the outskirts of town, he hunts for rice field rats and gets a taste of farm-raised porcupine.

Andrew goes off the grid to Iquitos, Peru, in the heart of the Amazon. He wrestles paiche fish, hits local markets for grilled coconut grubs and smoked jungle rodents and forages for giant biting ants with a tribal shaman.

Andrew heads to San Antonio, where a generation raised on Tex-Mex is redefining its signature Southern style and creating "Tex-Next." On ranches and in railcars, Andrew eats everything from calves' balls to crickets and quail.