Best Bites
Join Andrew as he relives some of the best bites from the first season. He'll show you scenes you've never seen before and revisit those worth seeing again. You'll also get a sneak preview of what's in store for the second season.
China - Beijing
Join Andrew in Beijing, home to one of the world's most vibrant food scenes. From imperial dishes to hot pot street snacks, he'll eat his way through the city where east meets west and traditional food reigns.
Iceland
Join Andrew in Iceland, the land of fire and ice, complete with glaciers, hot springs, geysers and volcanoes. Look beyond the natural wonders and you'll find the food is out of this world too.
St. Petersburg
Get ready to alter all your preconceived ideas of Russian life. Andrew's taking a culinary tour through St. Petersburg, the cultural capital of Russia.
Minnesota
Join Andrew on a culinary tour through the place he calls home: Minnesota. From deep-fried bar fare to sophisticated cuisine, you'll see why this northernmost state is far from ordinary.
Bolivia
Llamas, witches and potatoes, oh my! Watch as Andrew Zimmern reveals the secrets of Bolivia on an unforgettable trip of amazing discoveries.
Chile
Cow udders, bull testicles and barnacles. It's all part of Andrew's culinary tour of the world's longest, thinnest country. From the city to the country to the sea, you won't believe what Chile has to offer.
China - Guangzhou
Join Andrew in Guangzhou, the bizarre-food capital of China. He'll find out why this city earns its reputation as a land where anything that swims, crawls or flies is put on a plate.
Delhi
From a fierce feast with the beautiful people to a meal that feeds the body and the soul, Andrew Zimmern goes deep into one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world: Delhi.
Phuket, Thailand
Join Andrew in Phuket, a tropical paradise and a favorite of travelers from around the world. Andrew ventures beyond the stunning beaches to discover the Thais who live in this part of the country.
Sicily
Andrew heads to the Italian island of Sicily, where the people think of themselves as Sicilian first and Italian second.
Goa, India
Join Andrew in Goa, India's smallest state, known for its tropical attitude and miles of beautiful beaches. A mix of Arab, Portuguese and native influence, this isn't the India you think you know, and the food is equally unique.
Samoa
Andrew comes to the south Pacific to explore the food and culture of the Samoan Islands.
Paris
Andrew gets a taste of just why Paris is known as the food capital of the world.
Los Angeles
Andrew arrives in the fast-paced, star-studded city of Los Angeles, where the variety of food varies as much as the diversity of the people who live there.
Halloween Special
Andrew invites fans to try unusual global foods that many people find horrifying. The party guests try baked tarantula, fresh steer blood and chilled lamb kidney - and share how they've learned about different cultures.
Hawaii
Andrew heads to Hawaii, going beyond the typical tourist destinations to sample authentic Hawaiian cuisine, including poi, octopus, wild boar organs and even Spam.
Ethiopia
Andrew explores Ethiopia, an African country famous for its cuisine. But the food he eats is not exactly what you find at your neighborhood Ethiopian restaurant.
Maine
Andrew makes a trip to Maine, where many residents find most of the food they eat literally in their own backyards.
Holiday Special
Andrew invites a group of diverse friends from around the world to celebrate their respective holidays. They share an Italian Christmas stuffed pig's leg and a Thai New Year dish known as snot.
Uganda
Andrew travels to Uganda, known as the Pearl of Africa, where the people are friendly and the food is simple.
Japan
Andrew heads to Japan, where the people have a passion for food and are willing to eat just about anything.
Sexy Food
Andrew explores the connection between food and sex in this special edition of Bizarre Foods.
Surf It Up
If it lives in the sea or in the sand, it's edible, and Andrew is ready to surf it up. From sea slugs in Samoa to mangrove snake in the Philippines, Andrew has tasted some of the strangest creatures ever to come out of the ocean.
Tanzania
Andrew samples the traditional Tanzanian breakfast, supu. It's a soup made with goat lungs, heart and liver, as well as cow stomach, intestines and tongue.
Seoul, South Korea
Andrew travels to Seoul, South Korea, where he feasts on the country's most authentic soups, barbecues and fermented foods.
The Outback
Andrew heads into the Australian Outback, where he eats wallaby with some Aborigines, samples crocodile cooked on the barbie and helps thin out the huge population of poisonous cane toads by making them into a meal.
Appalachia
Andrew heads to the Appalachian Mountains to get a taste of the region's culture and its food.
Eastern Australia
Andrew visits Australia, where he has the opportunity to try some of the most exotic and unique species found only Down Under.
Singapore
Andrew heads to Singapore, where the diversity of food and culture is in abundance.
Texas
Andrew Zimmern takes a Wild West tour of the Lone Star State of Texas.
Survival Special
Andrew takes to the jungles of Mexico, where he learns to live off the land. Andrew must survive with only a handful of objects and eat only foods he can forage in the woods.
Nicaragua
Nicaragua has had its share of hardships, but the people of this nation are resilient and resourceful, and it shows in the food they eat. Andrew visits this tropical island to get a taste of some of its unusual local fare.
Puerto Rico
Join Andrew in Puerto Rico as he visits the Pork Highway, tries some strange ice cream and tours a unique San Juan market. He'll also go deep into the heart of the Puerto Rican rainforest and sample some wild treats along the way.
Thailand
Andrew travels beyond the frenetic city of Bangkok to rural northeastern Thailand, a region known as Isan. When it comes to food in Isan, the people know how to make use of everything living and breathing.
Cambodia
Cambodians eat some of the most unusual foods on the planet. Andrew visits this developing nation where the food traditions, once based out of severe hardship, are now a source of national pride.
Bangkok
Andrew visits Thailand and samples the cuisine along the way, including some foods he's never even seen until now.
Mongolia
Andrew visits Mongolia, where people live off the harsh land in much the same way their ancestors did in the days of Genghis Khan. Andrew samples the cuisine along the way, including some foods he's never even seen until now.
Arizona
Andrew uncovers unique food traditions in the great state of Arizona, where the spirit of the Wild West still lives strong today.
Kids' Special
Andrew's travels around the world have proven that when it comes to trying new foods, kids are some of most adventurous eaters around.
Tokyo
Join Andrew as he returns to the vibrant and trendsetting city of Tokyo. More unforgettable adventures in food await, from legendary seafood markets to becoming a horumon chef for a day serving up cow and pig intestines.
Baja Mexico
Andrew explores the peninsula of Baja in Mexico, where the land is harsh but the people and the food are out of this world. From street carts to high-end cuisine in Tijuana, Ensenada and La Paz, Andrew samples the best.
Buenos Aires
Follow Andrew as he heads to Buenos Aires and explores the meat culture of one of the world's great towns (and tangos away the night with a stunning young starlet).
Syria
Andrew Zimmern travels to Syria, a country that's home to some of the oldest civilizations on Earth. Syria was a crossroads for trade routes between Asia and Europe. Andrew is in search of foods like sausage made of camel hump.
Pennsylvania
Andrew takes to the road to sample the Pennsylvania staples most people never hear about. A Japanese superstar chef cooks up poisonous sexual organs and a family boils up every part of the pig.
Madagascar
Andrew gets an intimate look at the food and the people that live in one of the most remote corners of the earth, Madagascar. Many of the people still live the way they did hundreds of years ago, hunting and gathering for food.
Venice
Andrew visits the mystical city of Venice. From catching critters in the lagoon, blowing Murano glass and indulging in the best cicchetti in the world, he eats his way through the historic city.
Chicago
Chicago is a city of both innovation and tradition. From immigrants cooking up classics to world-renowned chefs creating new concoctions with modern technology, Andrew gets a taste of Chicago's diverse food scene.
Namibia
Andrew travels to Namibia, a country of astonishing beauty, vanishing cultures and truly bizarre foods. He gets a taste of traditional tribal foods including dried mopane worms and wildebeest eyeballs.
San Francisco
Andrew takes a trip to San Francisco, a city so well known for its counterculture that even the food can make a political statement. Andrew gets a taste of some alternative food sources that are outside the mainstream.
Greece
Andrew meets Greeks passionate about food in Athens and on the remote island of Kalymnos. This is a land where Andrew can taste the history and culture through the food. And he even eats a sea creature he's never seen - until now.
Hong Kong
Andrew gets a dose of turtle jelly soup, snake bile and medicinal bug tea in Hong Kong, the center for Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Hungary
In Hungary, it's not just goulash for Andrew. He breakfasts on blood cake with a family of Gypsies, and sinks his teeth into the layers of flavors that make up the food and culture, old and new.
Chengdu
Andrew ingests tongue numbing pig brains, spicy rabbit heads and heart attack noodles in Chengdu, China - the epicenter of spicy Sichuan cuisine.
Indonesia
Andrew fuels up on cobra blood for an extra kick of energy and ceremonially feasts on buffalo entrails during a traditional Indonesian funeral.
Taste of the Tropics
Andrew visits the planet's hot zones, the band surrounding the equator known as the tropics. He focuses his exploration on the tropical locations closest to home: the Caribbean and the Americas.
Kalahari
Giant porcupine and jewel beetles are scavenged for the arid Kalahari desert. Outside Johannesburg, Andrew sinks his teeth into zebra.
Embassy Row
Andrew's taking a food tour around the world without ever leaving our nation's capitol. He's making stops at some of the foreign embassies in Washington, D.C., to get a taste of how food can open the doors to diplomacy.
Finland
Andrew ventures to Finland, where he dines on delectable delights including blood pudding, reindeer tartare, pan-fried brown bear rump and even birch tree bark.
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro may be one of the world's sexiest cities, but it's not the sunny beaches or the samba-dancing that are the attraction for Andrew: it's the city's diverse food culture.
Suriname
Venture with Andrew into the remote rainforest of Suriname to treat his taste buds with a stink pig called a pingo and a rodentlike rabbit known as a coconi.
Fez, Morocco
Andrew Zimmern takes a culinary tour through Morocco, where he finds everything from lamb's head to pigeon pie on the menu.
Sardinia
Andrew is back for another exotic food adventure, this time in Sardinia. He gives us a taste of what the locals eat.
Montreal
Andrew heads up north for a taste of the joie de vivre in the multicultural city of Montreal.
Jamaica
Andrew experiences the true flavor of Jamaica as he digs into unique dishes that combine islands flavors with African traditions.
Mexico City: Corn Smut & Ant Eggs
Andrew heads to Mexico City. He eats stewed pig knuckles in one of the city's most notorious barrios, feasts on worms and ant eggs in the desert outside the metropolis, and travels though ancient canals to taste fish egg tamales.
Lisbon: Snails, Sardines & Barnacles
Andrew heads to the coast in Lisbon, Portugal. He braves crashing surf to harvest barnacles from the rocky shore, feasts on mounds of mollusks at huge snail festival, and learns the secret to making the world's best canned fish.
Ireland: Ancient Bog Butter & Smoked Pigeon
In Ireland, Andrew eats his way from Cork to Dublin. He tries the ultimate smoked salmon, dines on pigeon with bog oak, and eats one of his all-time most bizarre foods: 3 thousand-year-old butter that was found buried in a bog.
Brooklyn: Schmaltz & Sea Robins
Andrew finds out what's cookin' in Brooklyn. He fishes for sea robin to grill dockside in Sheepshead Bay, tries kombucha bacteria pancakes in a defunct pharmaceutical warehouse, and eats a spleen sandwich in an Italian Focacceria.
Newfoundland: Moose Pies & Seal Flippers
Andrew explores the easternmost point of North America, St. John's, Newfoundland. He fishes for cod to fry up the cheeks and tongues, makes moose pie in a family grocery, and dines on chicken fried seal flipper with a local chef.
Faroe Islands: Spoiled Sheep & Boiled Birds
Andrew heads to the Faroe Islands, a mysterious Nordic wonderland. He dives frigid waters for giant horse mussels, feasts on a fermented sheep's head and a blood-filled sheep's stomach, and eats seagulls scooped from the ocean.
Los Angeles: Spleen Soup and Sriracha
Andrew pulls back the curtain on the L.A. food scene. He eats fried fish fins at a high-tech fish processor, rescues a hive and its honey from a colony of Africanized bees, and learns the secret to the country's hottest hot sauce.
Hawaii's Big Island: Eyeballs and Abalone
Andrew heads to Hawaii's Big Island, far from the tourist filled beaches. He pulls huge fresh water prawns out of hidden streams, harvests abalone from an aquaculture farm, and feasts on tuna eyeballs at the local grocery store.
Kazakhstan: Hunting with Eagles and Milking Mares
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.
Taipei: Stinky Tofu and Iron Eggs
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.
Rome: Porchetta, Pecorino and Pizza
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.
Dubai: Carp, Camel and Cocoons
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.
Panama: Beef Lungs and Love Potions
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.
Ho Chi Minh City: Rat Hearts and Porcupine Parts
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.
Peruvian Amazon: Giant Rodents and Biting Ants
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.
San Antonio: Brains, Balls and Blood
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.
Guatemala: Balls, Brains & Bull's Eyes
Andrew visits Guatemala, where ancient flavors are still alive in the food today. From fresh bull testicle ceviche at the market to a Sunday dinner with possum as the main dish, Andrew tastes rich heritage in every bite.
Croatia's Dalmatian Coast: Roasted Rodents & Stone Soup
Andrew heads to Croatia, an Eastern European kingdom straight out of a storybook. An up-and-coming tourist hotspot, Andrew still finds ancient tastes from roasted dormice and giant offal kebabs to baked rooster and grilled frog.
Paris Reborn: Cow Heads, Caves & Pig Parts
Andrew goes to one of the world's culinary capitals, Paris, France. He feasts on mushrooms harvested in underground caves, brines ham delivered to the presidential palace and learns the dying art of aging artisanal French cheese.
Philadelphia: Shad Cakes, Krak and Kishke
Andrew travels to Philadelphia, a city built on doing things their way, especially when it comes to food! From cheesesteak and shad cake to turkey neck and pig liver, Andrew discovers the secret to a good bite is Philly pride.
Oaxaca: Ant Tortillas and Grasshopper Tacos
Andrew travels south to Oaxaca, Mexico, for tastes and traditions thousands of generations old. From winged ants and grilled intestines to grasshoppers and dried beef hearts, Andrew eats a path through Mexico's culinary capital.
Amsterdam: Squealing Eels and Stroopwafels
Andrew travels to Amsterdam for unique reinventions of traditional Dutch recipes. From invasive goose krokets and insect-filled nuggets to smoked local eel and hollow pig head, Andrew tastes the city's nonconformity in each bite!
Kansas City: Snoots & Spleens
Andrew heads to the American heartland to taste his way through meat-centric Kansas City. From jiggly pig snoots and sliced spleen to backyard-trapped woodchuck and world-class BBQ, Andrew satisfies his carnivorous cravings in KC.
Jerusalem: Kugel, Couscous and Kunafa
Andrew travels to multicultural hot spot Jerusalem for tastes older than the city itself. From cow udder and veal brain to turkey balls and mullet roe, Andrew gets a once-in-a-lifetime look at why this city's so legendary.
Madrid
Andrew heads to Madrid, where chefs are writing a new chapter in the city's cookbook. From organ omelets and an ancient pig slaughter to a Rolex made of duck liver, Andrew finds that Spain is full of exciting flavors.
Senegal
Andrew journeys to Senegal for brain-like snails and charred beef ankle. From a near-death fishing trip to an ancient sea salt harvest and a meal of roasted sheep with a local family, Andrew is immersed in West African culture.
North Carolina
From hunting feral hogs to brewing ancestral pot likker soup to grilling ray with world-class chefs, Andrew experiences legendary Down East fellowship in every bite as he explores North Carolina.
The Bronx
In NYC's Bronx, Andrew samples otter soup and fresh coyote. From a local pork-slinging hero to Puerto Rican grandma-style gizzards to diving for dinner in Long Island Sound, Andrew uncovers the Bronx's strong, unique culture.
Okinawa
Andrew heads to Okinawa, Japan, for ancient eats like tuna eye and pickled pig ear. From poisonous pufferfish and raw goat, to the last sea snake eggs on earth, Andrew tastes the secrets of locals' famed well-being.
Shanghai
Andrew travels to Shanghai to snack on chicken hearts and snail shells. Whether he's tasting turtle cooked by a legend, helping out an ancient fishing family or downing a shot of snake bile, Andrew meets adventure mouth-first.
Stockholm
Andrew heads to Stockholm, where New Nordic chefs celebrate putrefied fish and smoked sperm. From reindeer testicle and horse meat to Swedish spins on bahn mi and hot dogs, Andrew is schooled on Scandinavian simplicity.
Cyprus
Andrew goes to Cyprus to fill up on stuffed grape leaves and pork belly. From curdling goat milk and harvesting carob pods to sampling sun-dried goat and the world's oldest cookie, Andrew savors the island's ancient edible legacy.
Lewis and Clark Trail
Andrew experiences the bountiful cuisine of the Pacific Northwest while retracing the footsteps of Lewis and Clark. He samples Pacific lampreys, forages for edible barnacles and harvests sea salt on this culinary adventure.
The Southern BBQ Trail
Andrew eats his way through the Southern BBQ Trail. He eats dry-aged brisket in Atlanta, liver nip dumplings in Leesville, South Carolina, raccoon hash in Hull, Georgia, and makes some new friends along the way.
Civil War
Andrew sinks his teeth into the foods that have sustained soldiers and civilians since the lean times of the Civil War and shaped a region's cuisine, from barbecued raccoon and squirrel stew to tooth-cracking hard tack.
Road Tripping Route 66
Andrew sets off on historic Route 66 to explore the iconic eats along the world-famous highway. On his journey, he eats paddlefish roe, tries ranch dressing soda and even judges a calf fry cook-off.
Great Lakes
From pork shoulder cooked underground to hearty pasties and whitefish plucked from the tumultuous Lake Superior, Andrew explores the cuisine of the individualistic Upper Peninsula in Michigan.
Cruising the Pacific Coast Highway
Andrew cruises up the most scenic highway in America on a seafood-sampling adventure. His journey takes him hagfish fishing, eating the slimy reproductive organs of sea urchins and foraging for juicy juicy mollusks.
Magnificent Mississippi River
Andrew Zimmern follows Mark Twain's path down the Mississippi River for a taste of Americana. Floating from meal to meal, he tries frog legs on a cargo ship, hunts wood duck and learns the art of Deep South pheasant pot pie.
Cajun Country Trail
Andrew Zimmern heads south to explore Louisiana's Cajun country. From blood sausage to chewy ginger cakes, seafood gumbo to wild hog heart, Cajun country is rife with edible resources and French-inspired recipes from the past.