article_snippet: Podell, now 78, has encountered everything from run ins with guerillas in Yemen to being attacked by flying crabs in Algeria and being interrogated by Cuban secret police. '
article_snippet: In the course of Podell Podell has eaten: .
article_snippet: Podell's adventures have seen Podell's adventures trapped Cape Buffalo and crocodiles in Botswana; unable to furnish the required proof to the Egyptian police that Podell's adventures was not Jewish; being unable to prove to the Cuban secret police that Podell's adventures was not CIA and been thrown in jail in Baghdad when a con artist pretended a con artist had hit a con artist with a land cruiser.
article_snippet: And of course, Podell has been privy to some of the world's rarest - and sometimes unappealing - culinary offerings.
article_snippet: Podell met thousands of colourful characters on Podell travels, including a prostitute in Berlin, left, and a happy Haitian man, right .
article_snippet: What did Podell learn on the road? '