“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”
-Chapter Two of his bestseller Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
-Chapter Two of his bestseller Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
https://dailycaller.com/2012/04/17/obama-bites-dog/
Thank you. That's what I remembered (from the 'news', not from reading the book).