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45-604: Bizarre World is the follow-up to the successful Bizarre Foods . The show encompasses not only the classic bizarre foods of the world but also the unique cultures of the world. The new show appears to have been dropped in favor of new episodes of Bizarre Foods , which began in April 2010. The official website link redirects to the Bizarre Foods page on the Travel Channel website. This article relating to

90-496: A non-fiction television series in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to a television series about food and drink is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bizarre Foods Bizarre Foods focuses on regional cuisine from around the world which is typically perceived as being disgusting, exotic or bizarre. In each episode, Zimmern focuses on

135-560: A sled dog tour. Tongue sandwich, geoduck , live lobster, ceviche, pupusas , worm pretzels, maggot pupae, tarantula pops, teriyaki cockroaches, jellyfish salad, sea cucumber salad, goose intestine, frog congee , salo . Zimmern also visits a fish sauce factory. Zimmern visits the Sahakari Spice Farm and tries Ayurveda and yoga . Zimmern visited the Rungis market , a mustard shop, Paris's best cheese shop, and

180-578: A base before Michel set off into the Western Sahara to try to find Smara . France had an important administrative, military and economic presence. Essaouira had a Franco-Moroccan school, still visible in Derb Dharb street. Linguistically, many Moroccans of Essaouira speak French fluently today. In the early 1950s film director and actor Orson Welles stayed at the Hotel des Iles just south of

225-579: A location due to the photogenic and atmospheric qualities. The town was used in the filming of "The Game of Thrones" as the home of the Army of the Unsullied. The scene of the rows of crucified slaves were props to cover the Portuguese cannons. Beginning in the late 1960s, Essaouira became something of a hippie hangout. Essaouira is protected by a natural bay partially shielded from wave action by

270-545: A native of Portland . Zimmern hosted a holiday pitch-in party with chefs and friends he made around the world. It was at a historic mansion in Minneapolis and the food was cooked at the Calhoun Beach Club . Zimmern takes part in a spiritual possession ceremony while in one village. Beginning with Season 7, the show has been retitled Bizarre Foods America. The format remains the same but focuses more on

315-523: A peaceful harbor protected against strong marine winds. Essaouira has long been considered one of the best anchorages of the Moroccan coast. The Carthaginian navigator Hanno visited in the 5th century BCE and established the trading post of Arambys. Around the end of the 1st century BCE or early 1st century CE, the Berber king of Mauretania Juba II established a Tyrian purple factory, processing

360-471: A snail farm. Zimmern went to a vegan supper and a Hispanic family's feast. Featuring special guest chefs Wolfgang Puck , Ben Ford and Ani Phyo and Los Angeles food blogger Eddie Lin [1] . In Addis Ababa , Zimmern shopped at Africa's largest market and in Harar he fed meat to wild hyenas. Zimmern went lobster fishing with Linda Greenlaw and judged a Deathmatch Maine Bizarre Foods contest with his father,

405-615: A stake. Kinabuchs : seaweed, mussels on a half shell, grilled tuna belly, snails cooked with coconut, tuna collars grilled. Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park , mangrove worms. Ouarzazate : Tajine with chicken and vegetables, mint tea , grilled kidneys, kefta , sausages. Essaouira : cuttlefish , stingray , sardines . Eureka : couscous with goat and vegetables. Chahramans Restaurant, Marrackech : Pastilla with pigeon, Briouat . Jemaa el-Fnaa : poached calf's brain. Motes de la Magdalena : menudo ( tripe soup), cuero de librillo (outer lining of

450-507: Is a typically Moroccan development. In Classical Arabic, the noun is sūr ( سور , with plain /s/ and /r/), diminutive suwayrah ( سويرة ); this is the only form cited in all dictionaries of Classical Arabic. Hence, the spelling of the name in Arabic script according to the classical pronunciation is السويرة al-Suwayrah (with sīn not ṣād ). Until the 1960s, Essaouira was generally known by its Portuguese name, Mogador . This name

495-548: Is also a center of argan oil production. It has become a tourist attraction due to the tree-climbing goats who are unique to the region, as argan trees are the only type the goats climb. There is a French international school in Essaouira, Groupe scolaire Eric-Tabarly . Since 1998, the Gnaoua Festival of World Music is held in Essaouira, normally in the last week of June. It brings together artists from all over

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540-587: Is also renowned for its kitesurfing and windsurfing , with the powerful trade wind blowing almost constantly onto the protected, almost waveless, bay. Several world-class clubs rent top-notch material on a weekly basis. The township of Sidi Kaouki is located 25 km south of Essaouira and is becoming one of the best locations in Morocco for surfing, windsurfing and kitesurfing. There are several businesses in Sidi Kaouki which offer gear rental. Essaouira

585-487: Is probably a corruption of Amegdul ( Arabic : أمقدول , romanized :  Ameqdūl ), which was mentioned by the 11th-century geographer al-Bakrī . The name Mogador originated from the Phoenician word Migdol , meaning 'small fortress'. Archaeological research shows that Essaouira has been occupied since prehistoric times. The bay at Essaouira is partially sheltered by the island of Mogador , making it

630-457: Is small and summers are warm while winters are mild. Annual rainfall is usually 300 to 500 millimetres (12 to 20 in). The highest temperature ever recorded in Essaouira was 35.7 °C (96.3 °F) on 18 April 2017. The lowest temperature ever recorded was 2.2 °C (36.0 °F) on 29 January 2005. The lowest maximum temperature ever recorded was 11.8 °C (53.2 °F) on 15 February 2018. The highest minimum temperature ever recorded

675-623: The 19th century. Medina of Essaouira was designated by the UNESCO a World Heritage Site in 2001. The name of the city is usually spelled Essaouira in Latin script, and الصويرة in Arabic script. Both spellings represent its name in Moroccan Arabic , aṣ-Ṣwiṛa . This is the diminutive (with definite article) of the noun ṣuṛ which means "wall (as round a yard, city), rampart". The pronunciation with pharyngealized /sˁ/ and /rˁ/

720-672: The Bombardment of Mogador , an important battle of the First Franco-Moroccan War . From 1912 to 1956, Essaouira was part of the French protectorate of Morocco . Mogador was used as a base for a military expedition against Dar Anflous, when 8,000 French troops were located outside the city under the orders of Generals Franchet d'Esperey and Brulard. The Kasbah of Dar Anflous was taken on 25 January 1913. In 1930, brothers, Michel and Jean Vieuchange used Essaouira as

765-657: The Iles Purpuraires . A broad sandy beach extends from the harbour south of Essaourira, at which point the Oued Ksob discharges to the ocean; south of the discharge lies the archaeological ruin, the Bordj El Berod . The Canary Current is responsible for the generally southward movement of ocean circulation and has led to enhancement of the local fishery . The village of Diabat lies about five kilometres (3.1 miles) south of Essaouira, immediately south of

810-538: The Oued Ksob . Essaouira connects to Safi to the north and to Agadir to the south via the N1 road and to Marrakech to the east via the R 207 road. There is a small airport some 7 to 8 km (4 to 5 mi) away from the town, which schedules several flights a week to Paris-Orly , London-Luton and Brussels-South (Charleroi) and daily to Casablanca . Essaouira's climate is semi-arid climate ( BSk/BSh ), with mild temperatures year round. The gap between highs and lows

855-549: The Rabat Archaeological Museum . During the Middle Ages , a Muslim saint named Sidi Mogdoul was buried in Essaouira, probably giving its origin to the name "Mogador". In 1506, the king of Portugal, D. Manuel I , ordered a fortress to be built there, named Castelo Real de Mogador . Altogether, the Portuguese are documented to have seized six Moroccan towns and built six stand-alone fortresses on

900-567: The Tetraclinis tree), both of which have been practised in Essaouira for centuries. The fishing harbour , suffering from the competition of Agadir and Safi , remains rather small, although the catches ( sardines , conger eels ) are surprisingly abundant due to the coastal upwelling generated by the powerful trade winds and the Canaries Current . Essaouira remains one of the major fishing harbours of Morocco. Essaouira

945-519: The murex and purpura shells found in the intertidal rocks at Essaouira and the Iles Purpuraires . This dye colored the purple stripe in the togas worn by the Senators of Imperial Rome . A Roman villa was excavated on Mogador island . A Roman vase was found as well as coinage from the 3rd century CE. Most of the artifacts are now visible in the Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah Museum and

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990-542: The 1541 Fall of Agadir , the Portuguese had to abandon most of their settlements between 1541 and 1550, although they were able to keep Ceuta , Tangier and Mazagan. The fortress of Castelo Real of Mogador fell to the local resistance of the Regraga fraternity four years after its establishment, in 1510. During the 16th century, powers including Spain, England, the Netherlands and France tried in vain to conquer

1035-616: The 1960s as Mogador (Arabic: موغادور , romanized:  Mūghādūr , or موݣادور , Mūgādūr ), is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marrakesh-Safi , on the Atlantic coast . It has 77,966 inhabitants as of 2014. The foundation of the city of Essaouira was the work of the Moroccan 'Alawid sultan Mohammed bin Abdallah , who made an original experiment by entrusting it to several architects in 1760, in particular Théodore Cornut and Ahmed al-Inglizi , who designed

1080-470: The Moroccan Atlantic coast, between the river Loukos in the north and the river of Sous in the south. Four of them only had a short duration: Graciosa (1489), São João da Mamora (1515), Castelo Real of Mogador (1506–10) and Aguz (1520–25). Two became permanent urban settlements: Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué (modern Agadir , founded in 1505–06), and Mazagan , founded in 1514–17. Following

1125-469: The Renegade"). Mohammed III took numerous steps to encourage the development of Essaouira including closing off the harbour of Agadir to the south in 1767 so that southern trade could be redirected through Essaouira. European communities in the northern harbour of Rabat - Salé were ordered to move to Essaouira through an ordinance of 21 January 1765. From the time of its rebuilding by Muhammad III until

1170-706: The Sultan of Morocco and asphyxiate the harbour of Safi . He departed for Salé on 20 July 1629 with a fleet composed of the ships Licorne , Saint-Louis , Griffon , Catherine , Hambourg , Sainte-Anne , Saint-Jean . He bombarded the city of Salé, destroyed three corsair ships, and then sent the Griffon under Captain Treillebois to Mogador. The men of Razilly saw the fortress of Castelo Real in Mogador and landed 100 men with wood and supplies on Mogador island, with

1215-688: The United States rather than international travel. Starting with season 12, Bizarre Foods America has episodes in the other countries of the Americas. New episodes have been shot in Cartagena, Colombia ; Lima, Peru ; Ft. Worth, Texas ; Copper River (Alaska) ; Nashville, Tennessee ; Atlanta, Georgia ; the Florida Keys ; and Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada. A spin-off series of half-hour episodes that focused on famed destinations' classic foods—where they came from, how they're prepared, and

1260-467: The agreement of Richelieu. After a few days, however, the Griffon reembarked the colonists and departed to rejoin the fleet in Salé. After these expeditions, France signed a treaty with Abd el-Malek II in 1631, giving France preferential treatment, known as " capitulations ": preferential tariffs, the establishment of a Consulate, and freedom of religion for French subjects. The present city of Essaouira

1305-548: The best way to enjoy them. Focused on general fare and not bizarre foods. A DVD set (2 discs) called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Collection 1 was released on January 8, 2008. It includes the following episodes: A second DVD set (2 discs) called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Collection 2 was released on October 7, 2008. It includes the following episodes: Essaouira Essaouira ( / ˌ ɛ s ə ˈ w ɪər ə / ESS -ə- WEER -ə ; Arabic : الصويرة , romanized :  aṣ-Ṣawīra ), known until

1350-532: The city itself, particularly the Kasbah area, corresponding to the royal quarters and the buildings for Christian merchants and diplomats. Other parts were built by other architects, including Moroccan architects especially from Fez, Marrakesh, and Rabat. The harbour entrance, with the "Porte de la Marine", was built by an English renegade by the name of Ahmed el Inglizi ("Ahmed the English") or Ahmed El Alj ("Ahmed

1395-408: The city using French captives from the failed French expedition to Larache in 1765, and with the mission of building a city adapted to the needs of foreign merchants. Once built, it continued to grow and experienced a golden age and exceptional development, becoming the country's most important commercial port but also its diplomatic capital between the end of the 18th century and the first half of

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1440-2736: The cow stomach), guatita with the inner lining of cow stomach. Otavalo : motes , roast pork with skin, fried cheese empanada , elixir with aloe vera , jugo de sabila , and vitamin extracts. Puerto Francisco de Orellana , Napo River : lemon ants , piranha , coconut grubs , chicha . Zimmern participates in a cleansing ritual. Tapas Casa Botín : Cochinillo asado , baby eels, baby squid braisend on their ink. La Zapatería : cruncy pig ears, snails, polbo á feira (octopus), bull's tails Toño Sánchez : callos , casserole with blood sausage and tripe Market : mojama , criadillas (bull testicles), tripe. Museo del Jamón : Serrano , Ibérico , Bellota , head cheese . La trainera : Goose barnacle , shrimp, turbot , crab. Barcelona : La Bouqueria : razor clams , deep-fried worms, crickets. La Gardunya : Calf's brain, horchata Les Cols : Rooster comb risotto Ferran Adrià : El Bulli. Maurice, Louisiana : Herbert's Specialty Meats , Turducken , Soop's : boudin , stuffed beef tongue New Orleans : Cochon restaurant, boudinballs, head cheese, smoked ox stew, deep fried chicken liver . Hattiesburg : Leathe's restaurant , opossum , raccoon; Serendipity Deli and Restaurant : chitterlings . Mobile : Wintzell's Oyster House , fried green vinegar pickled peppers, fried green tomatoes with crayfish sauce, 33 oysters . Alligator Alley , The Wash House Restaurant : alligator feast. Pensacola , Fish House restaurant : black grouper throats, gazpachee salad with hardtack . Chef's restaurant : flathead mullet deep fried, gizzard , fried mullet roe. Swansea : faggot , cockles and whelks , laverbread . Cotswolds : jugged hare , kidney and liver meatballs, Christmas pudding . London : Harrods , jellied eels , blood tongue sausage. In East End, F. Cooke, pie and mash , stewed eels. Borough Market , Roast restaurant, pigeon, ox heart grilled with bone marrow sauce, herring roes, Neil Yard Dairy , Stinking Bishop cheese Banger shop , fresh Italian gelato . Trinidad : Original souse king , souse, pig's and chicken's feet, cow skin soup. Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago , Street food : roti stuffed with goat and liver, doubles , cow heel's soup. Maracas Beach : callaloo , "Bake n' shark sandwich, fried bread stuffed with deep fried shark with sauces and vegetables, king mackerel sashimi. Oaxaca : grasshopper ( chapulines ), armadillo , tacos, jumiles , ant eggs ( escamoles ), maguey worms , mosquito eggs, chicken feet, red snapper ( huachinango ), corn smut ( huitlacoche ), mole and duck enchilada . Mexico City Zimmern goes on

1485-486: The cuisine of a particular country or region. He typically shows how the food is procured, where it is served and, usually without hesitation, eats it. Originally a one-hour documentary titled Bizarre Foods of Asia , repeated showings on the Travel Channel drew consistent, considerable audiences. In late 2006, TLC decided to turn the documentary into a weekly, one-hour show with the same premise and with Zimmern as

1530-534: The end of the nineteenth century, Essaouira served as Morocco's principal port, offering the goods of the caravan trade to the world. The route brought goods from sub-Saharan Africa to Timbuktu , then through the desert and over the Atlas Mountains to Marrakesh. The road from Marrakesh to Essaouira is a straight line, explaining the king's choice of this port among the many others along the Moroccan coast. Mohammed III encouraged Moroccan Jews to settle in

1575-1060: The host. In 2009, Zimmern took a break from Bizarre Foods to work on one season of the spin-off Bizarre World . Tokyo: Getemono bar, at Asadachi (1-2-14 Nishi-Shinjuku) raw pig's testicles , Frog sashimi , plus the frog's beating heart, lizard sake , at Yaki Hamna : Giant snails, fugu , at Hibari sushi , raw octopus sushi . at Suppon-Maki restaurant: Suppon (turtle soup) + drink: turtle blood with sake and turtle hearts. Yakitori restaurant: chicken heart yakitori, keel bones, chicken butts, rooster balls. Kobe : Kobe beef . Bangkok : at Silver Palace , bird's nest soup with Hasma , Rambutan , grilled fresh frogs Chiang Mai : pork sausage, fruit bat . Penang : sambal with fish roe , belacan , fermented shrimp paste, poured tea, horseshoe crab , fish maw , durian . At Balaw Balaw in Angono, Rizal : Balaw-balaw sauce, with fermented shrimp paste , soup Number Five (bull's rectum and testicles soup), uok in adobo , white worms from

1620-480: The independence of Morocco all resulted in Sephardic Jews leaving the country. As of 2017, Essaouira had only three Jewish inhabitants. On 15 January 2020, King Mohammed VI visited Bayt Dakira , a Jewish heritage house, in Essaouira. In the 19th century, Essaouira became the first seaport of Morocco, with trade volumes about double those of Rabat . The city functioned as the harbour for Marrakesh, as it

1665-406: The inhabitants of Agadir were forced to relocate to Essaouira. For 12 years, Mohammed III directed a French engineer, Théodore Cornut , and several other Moroccan and European architects and technicians to build the fortress and city along modern lines. Originally called "Souira" ("the small fortress"), the name became "Es-Saouira" ("the beautifully designed"). Thédore Cornut designed and built

1710-481: The larvae of crickets or beetles found in fallen coconut trees, crispy fried Alagaw leaves, ginatang bilo-bilo. At Everybody's Café in San Fernando, Pampanga : Dinuguan , a blood stew, crickets of rice fields cooked in adobo style, Betute Tugak (stuffed frog with pork). Puerto Princesa : Banana skewers, bananas rolled in brown sugar and deep-fried with caramelized sugar crust, fried chicken intestines on

1755-412: The locality. Essaouira remained a haven for the export of sugar and molasses and as an anchorage for pirates . France was involved in an early attempt to colonize Mogador in 1629. As Richelieu and Père Joseph were attempting to establish a colonial policy, Admiral Isaac de Razilly suggested they occupy Mogador in 1626, which he had reconnoitered in 1619. The objective was to create a base against

1800-464: The town and handle the trade with Europe. Jews once comprised the majority of the population, and the Jewish quarter (or mellah ) contains many old synagogues . The town also has a large Jewish cemetery. The city flourished until the caravan trade died, superseded by direct European shipping trade with sub-Saharan Africa. Changes in trade, the founding of Israel, the resulting wars with Arab states, and

1845-462: The town walls during the filming of his 1952 classic version of " Othello " which contains several memorable scenes shot in the labyrinthine streets and alleyways of the medina . Legend has it that during Welles' sojourn in the town he met Winston Churchill , another guest at the Hotel des Iles. A bas-relief of Orson Welles is located in a small square just outside the medina walls close to the sea. Several other film directors have utilized Essaouira as

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1890-417: The walls of the old city. Newer international hotels have been built along the sea front, with local planning regulations restricting buildings to 4 storeys in height. There are also many privately owned riads , also known as dars , that may be rented on a daily or weekly basis. The medina is home to many small arts and crafts businesses, notably cabinet making and 'thuya' wood-carving (using roots of

1935-428: Was 26.7 °C (80.1 °F) on 13 October 2017. The maximum amount of precipitation recorded in one day was 99.1 millimetres (3.90 in) on 8 March 2013. The Medina of Essaouira (formerly " Mogador ") is a UNESCO World Heritage listed city, an example of a late 18th-century fortified town, as transferred to North Africa by European colonists. There are only a handful of modern purpose-built hotels within

1980-549: Was built during the mid-eighteenth century by the Moroccan King. Mohammed III tried to reorient his kingdom toward the Atlantic for increased exchanges with European powers, choosing Mogador as his key location. One of his objectives was to establish a harbour at the closest possible point to Marrakesh. The other was to cut off trade from Agadir in the south, which had been favouring a political rival of Mohammed III, and

2025-577: Was only a few days from the inland city. Diplomatic and trade representations were established by European powers in Essouira. In the 1820s, European diplomats were concentrated in either Tangier or Essaouira. Following Morocco's alliance with Algeria's Abd-El-Kader against France, Essaouira was bombarded and briefly occupied by the French Navy under the Prince de Joinville on 16 August 1844, in

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