[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Liv, one of the things Zimmern really enjoyed was some sort of brain soup. He described the texture and the spices used to bring out the flavor. I think it was in Mumbai? The man knows about all parts of the animal - he'll mention how much he enjoys fish cheeks, for example. He does eat some pretty fucked-up shit, though - one time, it was balut. I don't know how that one went, I thankfully missed it.
It's not always overseas - he's gone to the heart of Texas, for example, and went on a hunt for some animal (I can't remember what it was).

Wei, MvF isn't always about proportion. It's also about HEAT. There was one time he ate the hottest burger you can imagine (ghost peppers, habaneros, and something in between those two) - and part of that challenge is you're not allowed a drink during the meal or for 5? 10? minutes after you finish. I think I like it so much because Adam is hilarious. Another was a wing challenge that rated next to police pepper spray on the Scoville scale.

Liv, more cooking/food shows I like are:

Dinner: Impossible. An impossibly hunky British chef is given a hapless line of cooks and told he has to cook X dishes for a large group of people. One notable episode is when he has to make gourmet dishes out of carnival food, to feed the entire park's (may have been Coney Island) group of employees.

Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Features Guy Fieri, that spiky-haired guy from TGI Friday's commercials. He'll visit and tell us all about whatever restaurant - one drive-through is a coffee place (think a building like the old Central Park Burgers) where the waitresses are attractive, scantily-clad women.

Chopped. Hosted by Ted from Queer Eye. You start with 4 chefs, and give them a box of mystery ingredients. They whip up an appetizer for the judging panel. One chef is "chopped" and the remaining 3 move on to the main course with another mystery box. Another is chopped, and the final two create a dessert. One time here, the mystery box contained marshmallow fluff, Cocoa Puffs, and dehydrated strawberries. The winner gets $10,000.