When you’re pining for vacation travel that’s still six weeks away, you have to get creative to avoid lighting something on fire for sheer kicks. I know last week I suggested visiting restaurants and bars that serve your favorite food and drinks to make it through March. But sometimes you’d rather have a little adventure. And for inspiration, you need look no further than Anthony Bourdain.

Now, some people rubbernecked through Kitchen Confidential for his lurid tales of restaurant life. And I, for one, am heartened by his contribution to Don’t Try this at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World’s Greatest Chefs—mainly because I spark a kitchen disaster at least once a month. But the Anthony Bourdain I’m inspired by is in A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisine, where the chef traipses around the world, eating such exoticisms as a still-beating cobra heart, goat-head soup, and pork-blood cake.

I’m not suggesting that you find these particular items in or around the District and match Bourdain blow for blow. Rather, to quell your restlessness, I’m suggesting that you create your own food adventure. Peruse menupix, talk to friends, read some food boards or the Wednesday food sections in the Post and the Timeses (New York and Los Angeles) to decide on four or five mildly scary dishes that you’ve always wanted to try. DCist writers went on such an adventure recently, visiting Sushi Taro to taste the infamous natto — fermented soy beans (which weren’t nearly as awful as they looked). And if you need some leads, DCist hereby provides them.