In the spirit of the excellent Lebanon show, I urge Tony to take a culinary tour of the cuisines of Somaliland, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. The shows are addictively exciting when you are in unstable areas and things deviate from plan and you have to improvise. They have that excitement of the unpredictable and possibly dangerous.

I'd also like to see you do a show on Soul Food - black cuisine that originated in the US South antebellum period.

Also, Madigascar or the Seychelle Islands are two places that have very unusual cuisines and interesting cultures.

But I'd really like to see Tony cooking on a submarine for a full cruise and see how he handles it. That would be a test of him and we can see what tools and ideas he brings to the table with the limited materials and foods stocked in a modern nuclear sub.

Why is there no African Cuisine? There are Mexican restaurants, and Chinese places. I've been to Thai, Vietnamese and Japanese restaurants. I've been to Indian eateries, and Russian. Italian and French.

But no African ethnic restaurants. Why is that? Is it because people don't want to pay for a plate of grubs and UNICEF rice that's covered in flies? Humans don't want to munch on the yummy cookies the Haitians make out of dirt? No one wants to slake their thirst on a bowl of cows blood?