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As December nears its end and winter makes its presence increasingly felt, "Bizarre Foods" host Andrew Zimmern appropriately offers up a cornucopia of foods harvested and consumed by those living in frigid climes. Airing Tuesday, Dec. 27, on Travel Channel, the hourlong episode somewhat deceptively titled "Bizarre Frozen Foods" pulls unused footage from the past decade of the series to introduce viewers to such exotic fare as ptarmigan, a beefy game bird roasted by snowmobile muffler in Alaska; olive oil frozen into cubes by minus-321 degree liquid nitrogen in Chicago; horse milk in Kazakhstan and the sea bird puffin on an island in Iceland. That hunting expedition saw Zimmern perched precariously on a seaside cliff and wielding a long-handled net used to catch the creatures. It took Zimmern several tries to get the hang of the technique but he nearly lost his balance in the process, which would have sent him tumbling into the icy waters below. "It is very dangerous when you've never done it before," he says. "What was quite funny was, most people don't realize that the most dangerous thing was actually getting on the island. Because the little clip that they have in the show shows the boat kind of coming into the rock and you jump out and grab the rope. What they don't show is the eight-foot swell behind it and the (driver of the) boat literally noses in and then guns it backwards and so you really have to jump when they say jump." Zimmern also walked the walk – or in this case swam the swim – when he waded into 53-degree water in Vancouver to harvest bull kelp and sea lettuce for a salmon dinner, a meal that he says turned out to be worth the risk of hypothermia. "It was delicious ...," he recalls. "We wrapped that salmon in bull kelp and then in salt and the infusion of that delicate sea vegetable flavor in the fish, you could taste it in every bite. It really was wonderful." Andrew Zimmern BY GEORGE DICKIE Zimmern presents the best cold weather has to offer in a 'Bizarre Foods' compilation What book are you currently reading? "I'm rereading Somerset Maugham's 'South Sea Stories' that is collected under different titles but it includes the 'Rain' short story, etc. He's my favorite writer and whenever the winter comes on I grab that and reread it, and that's what's currently on my bedside table." What did you have for dinner last night? "I had chicken parmesan with fresh crushed tomato sauce and a pasta cacio e pepe alongside it with my son." What is your next project? "I'm dying to get into my book. I'm writing another book coming up very shortly. And probably the biggest thing is that my production company, Intuitive Content, and my hospitality business, Passport Hospitality, are both in high- growth mode right now so I'm really enjoying seeing those grow and nurturing those companies." When was your last vacation, where and why? "My last real vacation was a two-week driving vacation I took with my wife in July through New England. We went up and down the coast visiting friends, hanging out at the beach. For me, a vacation is sitting at home because I travel 230 days a year, so the compromise was taking a driving vacation with my wife." Page 8 December 26, 2016 - January 1, 2017 Lucas Oil Stadium in India- napolis. (N) ESPN Under Armour All-American Game: Teams TBA. From Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla. (N) SBT2 NFL Regional Cov- erage. New York Giants at Washington Redskins or Chicago Bears at Min- nesota Vikings or Carolina Panthers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers or New Or- leans Saints at Atlanta Falcons or Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles or Green Bay Packers at De- troit Lions. (N) 4:25 p.m. WSBT 6 NFL Regional Coverage. Oak- land Raiders at Denver Broncos or Kansas City Chiefs at San Diego Char- gers. (N) SBT2 NFL Regional Cov- erage. 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