Extreme Cuisine with Jeff Corwin on Food Network

Explore Adventures in Eating in Series that Travels the Globe

Sep 17, 2009

Extreme Cuisine the Jeff Corwin is a new Food Network series that travels the globe and explores the way that cultures eat and examines food as a cultural experience.

Food Network is debuting a new food series with an adventurous twist. Extreme Cuisine with Jeff Corwin explores the cuisines from cultures around the world, many of which are strange and unfamiliar to modern culture. The Food Network series debuts on Thursday, September 17, 2009 and will air on Thursday nights at 9 PM ET.

"Extreme cuisine is a journey of adventure where we travel around the world and look at the relationship that people have with food. We are really trying to get into the dish itself, into the cultural experience and explore how food is often the glue that binds a culture."

In the quest to examine food from different cultures around the world, Extreme Cuisine will travel to exotic regions including Greece, Morocco, Peru, the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The United Kingdom, Louisiana and Hawaii.

The cuisines of cultures around the world may not seem appealing to the palate used to packaged food and fast food, but the series will definitely offer food for thought. In cultures without access to modern conveniences, such as refrigerators or even electricity, the people have sustained themselves for centuries.

Jeff Corwin a ConservationistJeff Corwin is an anthropologist, biologist and conservation expert who lives on an island off the coast of Massachusetts, but travels the globe 80% of the time. On the 22 acre island where Corwin lives with his wife and two daughters, the family grows about 20% of their own food. Jeff said in the interview that he is a foodie with a passion for food and the desire to teach people that food does not come from the refrigerator or the supermarket.

As an avid conservationist, Corwin is conscious of the carbon footprint mankind leaves behind and stated that he has a personal goal of reducing his own carbon footprint . He hopes to inspire other people to think about conservation and consider renewable resources.

Jeff Corwin is known for his tireless work for conservation of natural resources, endangered species and ecosystems around the globe. Corwin has hosted television programs on CNN, Travel Channel, NBC, Discovery Networks and Animal Planet.

Jeff Corwin's new book, “100 Heartbeats,” (Rodale) explores the plight of the most endangered wildlife species on the planet. The book and an accompanying MSNBC documentary, is due out in November , 2009.

Extreme Cuisine with Jeff Corwin , exploring food and culture, airs on Thursday nights at 9 PM on the Food Network.

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