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...host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, Andrew Zimmern has had the job for the past four years of facing down the weirdest dishes found across the world - from cow hooves and juicy cheese worms to penis soup. TIME talked to Zimmern about the show and his new book, The Bizarre Truth, which chronicles some of his more memorable eating adventures to make the point that the best way to understand the world is to show up hungry...
...small taxpayer groups have sprung up around the country to contest the way local officials spend public money, and a national organization called Contribuables Associés has started ranking members of parliament by their tax-and-spend policy records. "The change of mentality is very recent," says Bernard Zimmern, a businessman who is helping to fund the national campaign. Retired IBM engineer Michel Vergnaud founded one of the local associations in Lyons four years ago "out of curiosity," he says - and quickly...
Even China's harshest critics doubt that Beijing would deliberately destroy Hong Kong, and most Hong Kong people expect life to go on much as before. "We'll do fine," says Francis Zimmern, patriarch of one of the colony's oldest families and former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, as he lunches at the old-money Hong Kong Club. "In business I've dealt with China over 50 years, and I've never got a bad check. They've never gone back on an agreement...
Rich socialites like Elizabeth von Pfeil, daughter of Francis Zimmern, and lavish-living bankers like Andre Sukjin Lee say the main thing they dread is street crime, long virtually unknown. Lee's town house was broken into recently, and police blamed illegal immigrants from the mainland. "We've been a very safe place," says Von Pfeil. "But what will our police force be like...
...alone. A frequent companion is an imaginary mutt that she conjures up in glum moments. This shaggy symbol of self-pity recently appeared after a critic dismissed her work with the question, "Do we really need a scholarly study of playground doggerel?" The author of the offending article, L.D. Zimmern, turns out to be the father of Fred's estranged wife. The coincidence seems to have been extended as an ironic gratuity signaling solemn readers that Foreign Affairs is, despite pathos, sudden death and madness, an adroitly bundled comedy of hits and errors...