{"id":63,"date":"2012-05-08T19:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asstuesday.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2012-05-08T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:23:36","slug":"why-you-should-eat-donkey-a-conversation-with-andrew-zimmern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asstuesday.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Eat Donkey: A Conversation with Andrew Zimmern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asstuesday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Donkey-Watermelon-Salad-Art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64\" title=\"Donkey Watermelon Salad Art\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asstuesday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Donkey-Watermelon-Salad-Art-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asstuesday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Donkey-Watermelon-Salad-Art-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.asstuesday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Donkey-Watermelon-Salad-Art-362x300.jpg 362w, http:\/\/www.asstuesday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Donkey-Watermelon-Salad-Art.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewzimmern.com\/\">Andrew Zimmern<\/a>\u00a0is best known for eating things like bats, spiders and even rotten fish. He\u2019s the host of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/tv-shows\/bizarre-foods\">Bizarre Foods<\/a>\u00a0on the Travel Channel, where he travels the world to eat exotic dishes. But Zimmern is also a thinker and something of a food activist.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"nlMOS0ONSS\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/04\/30\/why-you-should-eat-donkey-a-conversation-with-andrew-zimmern\/\">Why You Should Eat Donkey: A Conversation with Andrew Zimmern<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Why You Should Eat Donkey: A Conversation with Andrew Zimmern&#8221; &#8212; Texas\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/04\/30\/why-you-should-eat-donkey-a-conversation-with-andrew-zimmern\/embed\/#?secret=hR2wB3ktD8#?secret=nlMOS0ONSS\" data-secret=\"nlMOS0ONSS\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; 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