Andrew Zimmern

Andrew Zimmern
Zimmern in 2008[1]
Born
Andrew Scott Zimmern

(1961-07-04) July 4, 1961 (age 63)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)Chef, restaurateur, TV and radio personality, food critic, director, producer, columnist
Years active1975–present[2][3]
SpouseRishia Haas (m. 2002–2018)[4]
Children1

Andrew Scott Zimmern (born July 4, 1961) is an American chef, restaurateur, television and radio personality, director, producer, businessman,[5] food critic, and author. Zimmern is the co-creator, host, and consulting producer of the Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods America, Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, Dining with Death, The Zimmern List,[6] and Andrew Zimmern's Driven by Food, as well as the Food Network series The Big Food Truck Tip.[7] For his work on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, he was presented the James Beard Foundation Award four times: in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2017.[8] Zimmern hosts a cooking webseries on YouTube, Andrew Zimmern Cooks. Another show, What's Eating America, premiered on MSNBC in 2020.[9]

In November 2018, Zimmern opened a Chinese restaurant, Lucky Cricket, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.[10]

Early and personal life

Zimmern was born in 1961 to Caren and Robert Zimmern, who worked in advertising, and raised in New York City[11] in a Jewish family.[12][13]

As a boy, he attended James Beard's legendary Christmas and Sunday open houses with his father and father's male partner, and credits Beard's hospitality for his early culinary aspirations.[14] Zimmern's mother was a college roommate of the founder of the Trader Vic's restaurant chain, where Andrew said he would frequent in high school.[13] He began his formal culinary training at the age of 14. His first job at a restaurant was at The Quiet Clam in East Hampton, Long Island.[13]

Zimmern attended the Dalton School and graduated from Vassar College. Zimmern worked at several fine dining restaurants in New York as either executive chef or general manager. He has also lectured on restaurant management and design at The New School for Social Research.

Owing to severe drug and alcohol addiction, Zimmern was homeless for about one year. During this period, he survived by stealing purses from cafes and selling the contents.[15][when?] In 1992, Zimmern moved to Minnesota, where he checked into the Hazelden Treatment Center for drug and alcohol addiction treatment, where he now volunteers. He currently resides in Minneapolis.[16][17] He later gained wide acclaim during his four-and-a-half-year tenure as executive chef of Café Un Deux Trois in Minneapolis's Foshay Tower.[18] His menus received the highest ratings from the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Monthly, and Mpls. St. Paul Magazine, as well as national publications.[citation needed] Zimmern left daily restaurant operations in 1997.

Zimmern describes himself as a "progressive Democrat" and is friends with former U.S. Senator and comedian Al Franken.[13]

Writing and food events

Zimmern is a contributing editor and award-winning monthly columnist at Mpls. St. Paul Magazine and a senior editor at Delta Sky Magazine. As a freelance journalist, his work has appeared in numerous national and international publications. Zimmern has served as SuperTarget's meal adventure guide, sharing his passion for ethnic foods with supermarket customers around the country. He is the international spokesman for Travel Leaders and Elite Destination Homes.

Prior to Bizarre Foods, Zimmern had an extensive radio career. His shows Chowhounds, The Andrew Zimmern Show, and Food Court With Andrew Zimmern achieved wide popularity in the Twin Cities.

Zimmern was the food features reporter for Fox TV station KMSP-TV and was also a featured contributor on both HGTV's Rebecca's Garden and Tip-ical Mary Ellen, where he handled on-air food duties for both shows. He was the food and lifestyle features reporter during the 1997 season of the UPN network's nationally televised Everyday Living.

Zimmern judging the 2012 Capital Food Fight, a fundraiser for DC Central Kitchen

Zimmern has been a guest chef at many national charity events, food festivals, and galas, including Food and Wine Magazine's Aspen Festival, the Twin Cities Food and Wine Experience, and the James Beard House in New York City. He has appeared frequently on the Food Network's Best Of..., CNN's Money and Health, and NBC's Today Show. He also starred in the Cooking Club of America's instructional video series.

Zimmern regularly speaks to professional associations around the globe on all culinary matters, from the American Federation of Chefs to the Chinese Chefs National Committee. In the fall of 2002, he was an honored guest of the People's Republic of China, traveling, lecturing, and giving demonstrations on Chinese cuisine.

Zimmern's book The Bizarre Truth: How I Walked out the Door Mouth First ... and Came Back Shaking My Head was published by Broadway Books in 2009. It is a collection of his food and travel stories from around the world.[19] He is also the author of Andrew Zimmern's Field Guide to Exceptionally Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Foods, released by Feiwel & Friends on October 30, 2012. His latest book is a grade-level reader series called Alliance of World Explorers, Volume 1: AZ and the Lost City of Ophir and was released in February 2019. This book won the 2019 Gold IPPY in Juvenile Fiction.[20]

Zimmern also lends his name to a stand named Andrew Zimmern's Canteen at Target Field and U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Travel Channel

Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern premiered on the Travel Channel with a pilot episode on November 1, 2006. The series has aired over 140 episodes, with Zimmern visiting dozens of countries and states. Bizarre Foods took home two CableFax awards in 2009, one for Best Television Program: Food, another for Best Online Extras for Andrew's web series Bizarre Foods in the Kitchen.

In 2009, Zimmern hosted a spinoff of Bizarre Foods called Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World. A pilot and nine episodes were produced in eight countries and two states.

Zimmern guest-starred in a 2007 episode of No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain in New York City; Bourdain did the same on Bizarre Foods. Zimmern also appeared in a 2009 episode of Man v. Food with Adam Richman in Minneapolis where he introduced Richman to lutefisk.

In January 2012, another spinoff of Bizarre Foods, called Bizarre Foods America, debuted. This time, Zimmern focused on various cities in the United States and samples local cuisines and ways of life.

Awards and recognition

In May 2010, Zimmern won the James Beard Award for Outstanding TV Food Personality.[21][22] He won another James Beard Award in 2012, a third in 2013, and a fourth in 2017.

His online series, Toyota's Appetite for Life, won an Effie Award in 2010.

Zimmern is entrepreneur-in-residence at Babson College.[23]

References

  1. ^ Rachel Hutton, Punch Pizza lauded by Travel Channel, offers $3 pizzas Archived January 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, City Pages, January 24, 2011, Retrieved January 25, 2011; his own words are in the YouTube video at the link.
  2. ^ Platt, Adam (February 6, 2013). "The business behind 'Bizarre'". Minnesota Post. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  3. ^ Schimmel, Jessica (August 28, 2009). "Celeb Profile: ANDREW ZIMMERN". NewYorkMoves. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  4. ^ Severson, Kim (September 11, 2018). "Andrew Zimmern's Nonstop Road (and Food) Show". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Babson College (January 31, 2012). "Chef, Author, Teacher, Businessman and TV Personality Andrew Zimmern Joins Babson College as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence". PR NewsWire. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
  6. ^ "Episodes". Travel Channel.
  7. ^ "Big Food Truck Tip" – via www.foodnetwork.com.
  8. ^ DeBaun, Dan (April 27, 2017). "Minnesota's Andrew Zimmern receives another James Beard Foundation Award". Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  9. ^ "What's Eating America with Andrew Zimmern". MSNBC.com.
  10. ^ Tam, Ruth (November 23, 2018). "Andrew Zimmern missed an opportunity — to honor, rather than insult, Chinese cooks". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
  11. ^ Adam Buckman (June 27, 2007). "'Bizarre Foods' Guy Scarfs Meals That Once Were Pets". New York Post. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
  12. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: Interview with 'Bizarre Foods America's' Andrew Zimmern - Page2 - Shalom Life". Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  13. ^ a b c d "Interview with Andrew Zimmern". Interviews with Max Raskin. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  14. ^ Moskin, Julia (December 15, 2020). "A Deeper, Darker Look at James Beard, Food Oracle and Gay Man". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  15. ^ "Wherein Andrew Zimmern went for the full Bourdain" Archived July 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, CNN Eatocracy excerpt of ABC Nightline interview, July 27, 2010.
  16. ^ "What's Eating Andrew Zimmern?". March 26, 2020.
  17. ^ Chen May Yee (August 3, 2008). "Wayzata retreat simplifies recovery". Star Tribune. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  18. ^ Rick Nelson, Café Un Deux Trois closes its doors, Star Tribune, April 7, 2003, Accessed December 8, 2010.
  19. ^ Berman, Joshua. "Interview With Andrew Zimmern: Travels in a 'Bizarre World'". WorldHum. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
  20. ^ "2019 Medalists Cat 1-35". www.ippyawards.com.
  21. ^ "Andrew Wins James Beard Award". Travel Channel. Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  22. ^ "James Beard Awards 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 21, 2011.
  23. ^ College, Babson. "Andrew Zimmern Joins Babson". www.babson.edu.

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