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Talking Travel: Andrew Zimmern discusses bizarre foods
When we started our conversation, Andrew was in an editing room helping his producers identify meats from an episode filmed in Argentina. He pointed out thymus glands and sweet breads as easily as you or I would point out our friends in a photograph. During the rest of our discussion, we touched on subjects ranging from his iron constitution to the American culinary psychology to just how educational his television program actually is.
So what are Andrew Zimmern's favorite foods? What is the one thing that he absolutely cannot stand eating? And what other Travel Channel host does he have a not-so-secret crush on? Andrew Zimmern shared it all with us.
Andrew Zimmern: Oh god, yes. Black licorice; really, really, really good cinnamon lollipops. I'm a nice Jewish boy from New York. Matzo ball soup or chopped chicken liver or brisket or something like that is my go to meal. I have a 5 year old boy. I have a rekindled love affair with Cap'n Crunch. That I thought died with my college pot smoking, freakazoid days.
MB: It's common for people to say, "This tastes like chicken." Is saying "x tastes like chicken" the lazy way to describe wild foods or do you notice similarities in the way certain things taste?
AZ: I will tell you that frog has more in common with chicken just as iguana has more in common with chicken, snake has more in common with chicken. It's all of those reptiles fall into the "taste like chicken" category. The reason is that they are very lean, white fleshed meats with a fairly benign flavor. Chicken has a deeper, richer, better flavor than those animals because the lack of fat in those animals. Fat is flavor in many instances. Those reptiles have a very thin, tinny sort of flavor that halfway through the chew the flavor evaporates. There's nothing left. It's how blindfolded I would always be able to tell I'm eating a reptile. I think that generations of people said, "oh, what's it taste like?" "Kind of like chicken." Now it's a joke. "Tastes like chicken."
MB: Do you think people actually dislike a lot of the things that you're eating or they just can't get past whatever psychological block they have?
AZ: No. Well it's certainly more the latter, but I will also tell you that the biggest reason is the 3rd item: they've never tried it. When I'm in Chile, and I'm with Mapuche Indians and we bleed out a lamb, and they stir some lime juice and cilantro and onion into fresh lamb's blood and take a spoon and pass the bowl around while it's still warm, that's hardcore. I don't know who gets to have that experience. I'm sure people are shocked. I was shocked, and I was there. I knew it was coming, and I was shocked. What I do for people is that I can sit there and show them with pictures and tell them with the sound of my voice what the experience is like and what's happening.
I think that a lot of people practice contempt prior to investigation.
MB: Where do you think that fear comes from and have you found that it's uniquely American?
AZ: Oh it's not uniquely American at all, although the rest of the world is more familiar with being more open-minded. Our country is the only country in the world, let's just talk about food for a second, that eats from the center, expensive cuts of the animal regardless of how much money you make. We just come up with different grades of meat to separate the steaks that poor people eat from the steaks that rich people eat. It's ludicrous. All we do is porterhouse and strip loin and rib eye. We don't eat the hooves and the head and stuff except when we grind them up and put them in hot dogs and don't tell people what it is. We eat boneless, skinless chicken breast. We take shrimp and throw away the head and the shell, where all the flavor is, and freeze the meat from the tail and worship that as if it is some kind of iconic ingredient. We're the only culture in the world that does that. It's completely backwards.
MB: But there are adventurous Americans, yes?
AZ: I think the best news in the whole world is that recently there has been a spate of reportage, I've even blogged about it, Tweeted and Facebooked about it, of all the different people who are taking pictures of their foods or documenting their food life.
MB: The food porn.
AZ: Correct. Flickr has a billion pictures that people download every year of what they're eating. I think it's the greatest thing in the whole world because people get on the internet and are like, "Oh my god, that's tongue? That looks good." That many people can't be wrong.
I find it really interesting when I'm in China, donkey is a very common meat. It's as common as beef or lamb, especially in the region that Beijing is the central hub to. Donkey meat is delicious. If Americans tasted it blind, it would be the most popular new meat in our country. It's lean, it's delicious, it tastes like veal, it cooks like beef, the skin is edible, it's just glorious. It's a certain species of the smaller donkey, and it's just amazing. It is delicious. We can't get people to eat goat in this country.
MB: Right, right. Would you say the biggest hurdle for people is the psychological, the taste or the texture?
AZ: The biggest issue with America is the psychology of it. I was in Thailand, and a lot of places that I travel to, the people eat bats. Here in our country, our kids are brought up with vampire mythology and Halloween mythology where bats represent disease and scary things and all the rest of that. If we didn't have those messages in our culture, we would be eating foods like bats (assuming that there were edible ones around).
MB: Do you look back at the popularity of Fear Factor in the last decade where eating those things was seen as a challenge that merited winning thousands of dollars? Is that the psychology?
AZ: No, I think Fear Factor was the result of the net of it all. They were playing off our difficulties with psychology. What bugged me about Fear Factor - and believe me at one point before I had my job on Travel Channel and that show first came out, I was like, "I could win that show. Are you kidding me?" - they preyed on the worst fears in our psychological profiles. Not only did you have to eat the worms, but you had to lie in a coffin covered with them. You know what I mean? Those kinds of jeopardy shows where they put you in a difficult situation, I think, exploit that psychology. The fact that people had such a problem with it proves the point I'm making.
MB: Everybody watches you eating all these foods and most of the time having no problem eating them, but how is your GI tract afterward? What has caused you the worst bowel difficulties after the fact?
AZ: What a delicate way to phrase that question.
MB: I did my best there. Thank you.
AZ: I was given the job of hosting this program because I actually lived that way. All they had to do was send the TV crew with me and send me to a couple of more exotic places that I couldn't afford to go or had time to go on my own. I say that to answer that question because by the time I got to filming my adventures, I had already been around the world a dozen times. I had never gotten sick. I don't think if I was a person who had a lot of food-borne illness issues, etc. that I would even say "yes" to the offer. I don't get sick. I've built up some resistance. I've eaten enough things in enough places. I even drink the water in countries where I tell other people not to.
I've had two nights in the last five years where I've been up all night sick, wrapped around the toilet. Both of those nights were in U.S. cities after eating seafood that when it went down my mouth, I was like, "oh that's a bad mussel" or "oh that clam may come back to hurt me."
MB: Anthony Bourdain takes the piss out of you fairly frequently on his show and in interviews. Do you guys have a good relationship? What do you think about him lobbing jabs at you every now and then? Is that a sibling rivalry relationship?
AZ: Yeah. It's so funny. I think it's also that those kinds of things are the most reportable, funniest bits. We both give each other a lot of crap in our shows. I think he's been lucky enough to say them under circumstances where the lighting is better, and it fits within the context of what they're doing. I'm always yelling at my editors and producers, "God, I said that funny line." We both give each other a lot of grief in our shows. That's very much sibling oriented. We're very friendly off-camera. Last time I was in New York, my wife and I were with Tony and his wife. We're friends.
MB: What would you say is more detrimental or more dangerous for people: eating things that you eat or the amount of fast food that Americans regularly eat?
AZ: Not even close, the amount of fast food. Not even close. I go to a lot of sporting events with my son. We'll be sitting there, and I'll get recognized and somebody comes up to me and they're eating a hot dog or a bratwurst because we're in Minnesota. They say to me, "I can't believe some of the stuff you put in your mouth. How can you eat that barbecued pig snout?"
My response to them is, "when I was in the Philippines, and they butchered that pig and took the snout and grilled it, steamed it and grilled it again, chopped it up and made that snout hash and I ate it, that meat had never seen the inside of a refrigerator. It had never seen pesticides. It had never seen growth hormones. That was fresh, gorgeous porky pork the way God meant it to be eaten. And it was delicious.
The pork that you're eating, sir, is ground up, it's five years old. It was liquidized. It was ammonia-ized. It was food processed.It was loaded with filler and chemicals, and the government says they don't have to tell you 25% of what's in it. What's worse? To me, it's not even close.
The diet of the average American is universally mocked and ridiculed for good reason. Our culture has created a part of a food life for many Americans that is unconscionable. Our show is entertainment, but there is a very graspable message in Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern that I think is the most important message of anything we do.
MB: And what's that?
AZ: When you broaden out the number of, for example, protein choices in your life, and start eating little fish as opposed to the American way which is just tuna, salmon and halibut and shrimp, when you start to eat 20 different types of red meat, not just two, you then spread out your choices and you ease pressure on farms and take away the power of these giant multinationals that now produces 75% of our food in this country. You actually level the playing field, and you're eating more, in the words of one of my idols, Michael Pollan, "you're eating foods that your grandmother would recognize."
MB: Do you think that some of the goofiness and schtick of your show leads to people to not realize that it is as educational and enriching as other programs? There are educational principles to your show, but because you're in a loud shirt and you're kind of yucking it up, people go, "oh it's just shock for shock's sake."
AZ: Yes. I couldn't agree more. I do that, I wouldn't say purposely, yeah I would. I do that purposely. When I first pitched this show to Travel Channel, I knew that I wanted to do a show that was 80% entertainment and 20% message and not the opposite because if I did the opposite in that day and age, I wouldn't have gotten the larger audiences to tune in. The greatest success of my program is that kids, parents and families are addicted to it. I know that in my heart that there is a generation of kids who have watched me since day one who are more open-minded eaters. I think the impact of shows like my show, like Tony's [Bourdain] show and others like it, in ten years from now is going to be even bigger and more manifest because I think there are a lot of people, and I hear it all the time, the kids didn't eat vegetables and they made a game of it - Andrew Zimmern would eat that. I get hundreds of those letters a week and emails. It's very powerful.
Plus, we have a kids' special that's coming out this coming year that we made awhile back that people are just going to fall in love with. It allows us to tell that message with a bigger exclamation point at the end of the sentence.
MB: Is there anything that you won't eat either because you just don't like the taste or texture? Is there anything that you were more than willing to try and after the fact said, "Okay, good. I tried it and I never want it again"?
AZ: Walnuts.
MB: Really?
AZ: I hate them.
MB: Why?
AZ: I've tried them a million ways. They just don't agree with me. They got a bad aftertaste. I eat every other nut on the planet.
MB: But not walnuts? So nutcrackers in the Christmas stockings for you?
AZ: No, can't stand them.
MB: Another Gadling writer, Aaron Hotfelder, wrote an open letter to you when your show started its second season. It basically said, "I love the show. I love what you do, but every place you go, you're the only person wearing shorts."
AZ: Correct.
MB: So, what's with the khaki shorts?
AZ: Oh my god, that's hysterical. What happens is, and I'll just give you an example. You go to Morocco and you're in the desert. Yes, it is hot and all the rest of that stuff, but you have to remember that I have to carry trunks and trunks of gear and clothing and equipment when I travel. We're gone 2-3 weeks at a time shooting multiple shows. I'll be in Alaska one week and then in the deserts of Morocco the next. Television is not a fancy business. I don't have stylists and handlers and all the rest. It's me, a producer, a couple of camera guys, a driver, a scout, a PA to carry some gear and maybe a security guy in a dicey area to watch the equipment. So it's basically a process of elimination: what can I use that I can transport the easiest with the most people? So that's really what it comes down to. Second of all, when you're working 18, 19 hours a day and you're in vans, you go for comfort. So it's also a comfort thing as well. I just find it really simple. The other thing that we actually talk about and think about a lot is that we have enough distracting stuff on the show. Leopard print type pants and white go-go boots is not - as much as I love to be an individual - it's maybe a little too distracting. It really is.
I never had to answer that question. It's a very good one. It's just because it is easy to travel with, easy to clean and has good pockets.
MB: Are you familiar with the game Fuck, Marry, Kill?
AZ: Yes.
MB: Okay, so Fuck, Marry, Kill and the 3 candidates are: Tony Bourdain, Samantha Brown, and Bear Grylls.
AZ: Oh my god. Oh my god. Well Tony I would marry. Absolutely in half a heartbeat. I've made no bones about it. Samantha is a very dear friend of mine, and both of us are very happily married, I would definitely make a run at her if we were both single. She is just an absolute pistol, and I just admire the heck out of her. I adore her. I have very publicly said that I have a huge crush on Samantha. Yeah, so that's a no brainer. The funny thing about Bear is that if I didn't know him, I would have obviously put him in the kill category. I love his show. I watch his show. I've recorded it since day one. I just think he's fantastic. But he's even nicer in real life. He's one of the nicest, most genuine, good human beings, and I've gotten to spend a decent amount of time with him. He's just a gem of a human being. So I would rather not fuck, marry or kill Bear Grylls. I'd rather just hang out with him.
The fourth season of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern premieres on the Travel Chanel on April 26 at 10:00pm E/P.
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Mike Apr 16th 2010 2:51PM
I was wondering about the same thing as Phil is, especially about the blood. Although the new covenant allows the pork, the blood is still a big NO ! What's up with that, AZ ?
Beverly Apr 16th 2010 2:16PM
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE ANDREW ZIMMERN!!!! He is just wonderful, funny, intelligent and very entertaining. I think his show "Bizarre Foods" is the best show on the Travel Channel. I can't stand that nasty, self-centered snob Anthony Bourdain, what a jerk!!
Travel Channel, more of Andrew Zimmern, he's the most entertaining person on that network.
roseyswine Apr 16th 2010 2:18PM
I love how he describes the flavor and texture of all the foods he eats.
SHALLOW HAL Apr 16th 2010 6:15PM
It's not so very much what AZ is eating but how he's eating it! He just doesn't look good. The only times I've ever split was when AZ was chomping away like a like an Orangutan and don't appreciate his continual emphisis on "GUTS"
Miguel Apr 16th 2010 2:45PM
Really like "Bizare Foods with Andrew Zimmern", especially when he was in Maine eating some beaver! No joke, It does"nt get better than that!
Chris Apr 16th 2010 2:58PM
I agree about the cabbages and that we must eat-- I suppose really the question is why we think that some things are OK and others are not. Really the point is to have respect for whatever we take from others and this earth.


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by Mischalova at .It was an awkward moment on American Idol this week: two best friends. One goes home. One continues to pursue his dream.
Unfortunately for Chris Richardson, he was forced to pack his bags and exit the FOX reality show stage. But don't feel too bad for him. As the Justin Timberlake look-alike explains, life could be worse ...
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The Chief Counsel to the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission has handed the Asheville City Council information concerning alleged misconduct by the Asheville ABC Board and Curtis Canty, General Manager of the Asheville ABC Board. The report approaches 120 pages in length. Below I have listed some specific high points of the report.
In light of the information provided to Council, I am herewith calling for the firing of Curtis Canty and the immediate resignation of all Asheville ABC Board members. The information in the NCABCC report makes it quite clear that the current Board is either incompetent or complicit in ongoing corruption.
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1. Based on testimony from representatives of numerous liquor distributors, Canty solicited and accepted gifts of significant value from distributors. Such gifts included substantial quantities of liquor, NFL game tickets, meals, entertainment, golf clubs, and other gifts. (Gifts of any sort from liquor distributors to ABC management have been prohibited since at least 1996.)
2. Testimony from employees of the Asheville ABC Board indicate that both Canty and Board members were direct recipients of liquor from distributors.
3. Accounting records indicate that Canty and others in the employ of the Asheville ABC Board made free use of their ABC credit card accounts, including lodging, food and personal items, evidently unrelated to Board business.
4. The Asheville ABC Board provided automobiles to Canty and other employees which were used for personal purposes as well as public business. All maintenance, totalling more than $4,000, on said vehicles was done by Jan Davis Tires, while Council member Jan Davis was Council liaison to the ABC Board. The appearance of impropriety is unfortunate, but clear.
5. In total, the ABC Commission investigation charges both the Board and Canty with 59 counts of receiving undue favors, 59 counts of receiving undue compensation from distillers' representatives, selling liquor in excess of distribution permits, and other violations.
It is my view that those responsible, or those whose appointed positions required oversight, must be held accountable for corruption in our ABC system. All members of the ABC board must resign immediately, and a new City Council liaison must be appointed to monitor Board matters.
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Rovio Denies Any Role in NSA Spying on Angry Birds Users
Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and made public yesterday claim U.S. and UK intelligence agencies are retrieving personal data sent by mobile apps during mass surveillance sweeps. Rovio's Angry Birds was one of the apps targeted by intelligence agencies for key profile data such as age, location and gender, and the company has now defended itself against these allegations, denying any voluntary cooperation with government agencies. Quote:
Note: Due to the political nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Politics, Religion, Social Issues forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts. Article Link: Rovio Denies Any Role in NSA Spying on Angry Birds Users |
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:06 AM | #2 |
It is standard practice to deny any illegal activities one has done.
The question, is this denial of guilt or proof of innocence? Only time and the evidence will tell.
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:08 AM | #3 |
The FBI has issued a warrant for the arrest of
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:20 AM | #4 |
If the NSA wants to watch me play Angry Birds, by all means, they can go ahead. It's every other thing the NSA watches that's unnerving.
Steve would never allow Safari to seem snappier on such a slow news day ergo Apple is doomed. |
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:21 AM | #5 |
and the company has now defended itself against these allegations, denying any voluntary cooperation with government agencies
Says it all.........
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:22 AM | #6 |
well duh like theyd know or tell
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:27 AM | #7 |
I'd have expected them to say the opposite.
Strange move on their part. |
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:29 AM | #8 |
I'm surprised they're not taking this opportunity to tell everyone that by purchasing the paid version, they won't be at risk of government snooping (by way of monitoring the connections to the ad networks).
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:30 AM | #9 |
I believe them. I have no problem believing companies don't cooperate with these spy agencies. If they were cooperating with them, somebody would have spoken up about this a lot sooner.
That Apple and others have handed over information to officials when requested to do so is no surprise - it's always been in their terms and conditions that they will if they're required to. That's fine and legal - the government came in with a warrant. What's not legal is mass collecting info at random because it has the slimmest chance of being useful to national security. |
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:31 AM | #10 | |
Perhaps they will rename their product Complacent Birds?
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:39 AM | #11 |
so for the sake of everyone's privacy, all games need to remove all ads asap!
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Jan 28, 2014, 09:57 AM | #12 | |
NB, what happens when you do make an app purchase and it turns out to be a duffer? I don't suppose you have a 2-week return window like Apple hardware purchase, but some kind of short period would surely be of benefit to consumers. |
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If it turns out that the NSA did, in fact, collect data from Rovio, I feel sorry for the person who had to sit and analyze that data all day long. What a boring job -- and what a colossal waste of taxpayer money.
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Jan 28, 2014, 10:14 AM | #15 |
Just like the person who collect data from Facebook and finds only pics of babies and food.
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Jan 28, 2014, 10:16 AM | #16 |
Unfortunately, the more accurate statement is that any activity that is done on the internet or through an internet connected device is subject to being "spied." We are hearing about NSA because of the leaks, but I would not be surprised that other governments are doing the same. Unless everything is encrypted (and even then its not a guarantee), there is no way to prevent your connections and habits from being tracked. And the truth is that it's not that hard. What is is hard is storing and analyzing the amount of data that flies around every day. In general, it is true that because of the volume of data, the analysis is done by software looking for patterns. So again, in general, unless you have a pattern that triggers a flag, no one will ever bother you. Still, the fact that my information is stored without my permission by countless number of governments is of concern. How many of are storing and analyzing this post right now?
Security is good, but this level of distrust of everyone is not the answer, IMHO. Actually, quite the opposite, until we can rebuild trust and tolerance between peoples and nation, security will continue to degrade regardless of all these "security" systems.
I have a collection of Apple stickers from all my Apple product purchases - they are white (the stickers not the products) |
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Jan 28, 2014, 10:21 AM | #17 |
When I read the Rovio statement I tranate to mean the the information possibly mined by the NSA is being shared with advertising networks. Also they do not mention is this information is being sent to servers, including their own, in the clear. Looks to me like their just trying to push the blame into someone else.
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Jan 28, 2014, 10:28 AM | #18 | |
It's all just a peace in the puzzle. |
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Jan 28, 2014, 10:59 AM | #19 | ||
Data will be collected, then interrogated via computer programs.
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HEY, spoiler alert!!!
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Jan 28, 2014, 12:16 PM | #22 | |
How is Angry Birds getting this information? How does NSA stop terrorist attacks by knowing the ASL of Angry Birds players? |
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Jan 28, 2014, 12:27 PM | #23 | |
Their job isn't to stop terrorists. It's to BE terrorists and spy on everyone. They are but one small piece of the pie. All leading up to a completely surveilled populace the likes of which can be seen in many movies. It's all about control. While the information coming out about the NSA and their activities is definitely something that needs to be taken seriously, the truly horrible stuff you haven't even heard about. You're told what they want you to know. You long for safety, and they are manipulating you into believing they will protect you even from themselves. How? By controlling even more of your information of course. That way they can say "YOU wanted it, we did this for YOU." |
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Jan 28, 2014, 01:59 PM | #24 |
This way they know who is most likely to use slingshots against buildings in a terrorist attack. Duh.
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A full-time, semester-long, field-based graduate internship is under the tutelage of a university supervisor. This internship cannot begin until all other required courses have been completed.
Students are eligible to take four courses during the first semester: EDUC 6000, EDUC 6100, EDUC 6200, and EDUC 6300. If possible, take EDUC 6000 and EDUC 6100 during the first semester. These courses are prerequisite to ECMT 6000, 6010, 6020, 6030, 6040, and 6090. The candidate must earn a B or higher in EDUC 6000 and EDUC 6100.
Most courses are offered face-to-face at night and some courses are available online. Some courses require field experience. Not all courses are offered every semester. For example, the internship is offered only during the fall and spring semesters and during the day – when schools are in session. (Please check the Class Schedule Listing on the Armstrong Web site to see course information for the upcoming semester.)


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COOK and stir chicken in large nonstick skillet on medium heat 5 to 7 min. or until done. Add peas and peppers; cook 2 to 3 min. or until heated through, stirring occasionally.
ADD cooking creme; cook and stir 2 min.
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- Krups 12-Cup Programmable Stainless Steel Coffee Maker KM611D50
Review Summary
Krups 12-Cup Programmable Stainless Steel Coffee Maker KM611D50
$99.99 Original Price $144.99
Savings: $45.00 (31%)
- 9-in. W x 7.8-in. D x 12.8-in. H
- 1100 Watts
- Auto on/off
- 1-year limited warranty
- brushed stainless steel & plastic
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Bold design, precision, ingenuity and unwavering craftsmanship uniquely define the philosophy of the company Robert KRUPS began in 1847. The first products were high-grade rotary and spring scales. Upon the arrival of electricity in the early 1900's, KRUPS turned its attention to producing electrical appliances utilizing its engineering expertise to develop and manufacture state-of-the-art products. This shift in focus would firmly establish the brand a century later as a world leader in coffee machines, espresso machines, toasters and a wide range of other appliances.
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Canon camera gets its close-up
by Claude Solnik Published: May 18, 2010
Tags: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, House, Saturday Night Live, Video camera
When "Saturday Night Live" went out onto the streets to shoot its opening credits, it didn't attract much attention since it used a light camera designed to shoot still photographs and video. "The Tonight Show" also used the same device to shoot its credits. And now the TV show "House" has used the same camera [...]