Very few people know food like AndrewZimmern does; He is an American food writer, chef, television personality and teacher. His career has taken him to work as an anchor, consultant, producer, and co-producer on the television series Bizzare Foods. He studied at Dalton School, where he graduated and went to Vassar College. From an early age, Andrew was interested in food, so at the age of 14 he began to take courses for his first culinary training.
TBT When I decided I wanted to do television some of my first appearances were on local news shows as a food expert. Here is one of those appearances from where I demonstrated how to make a lamb and raita dish on Everyday Living, a Twin Cities-based morning show. Giving Back Earlier this week, I visited St. The Salvation Army provides everything from basic needs and housing to rehabilitation and counseling to those in need.
He was a natural host, smirking at a beating cobra heart before popping it into his mouth like an almond or advising us to skip the starfish course and go straight to the jellyfish. When you watch Zimmern globe-trot his way through marketplaces and village eateries, giggling over bull testicle ceviche and educating us on the finer points of head cheese, it's hard to imagine that this eloquent adventurer was once a homeless criminal crippled by alcohol and drug addiction. But he was. The story of Andrew Zimmern's life is characterized by a massive fall from grace and an even bigger redemption.
As host of Bizarre Foods , Andrew Zimmern greeted the world with an open mouth and an open mind. He has endured the horrors of durian fruit , which is so potently odorous, that the stench prompted a college evacuation amid concerns of a gas leak, according to Time. If unicorns existed, Zimmern would probably eat their horns. It's easy to imagine that being married to a man with such an adventurous mouth might require a strong stomach, or a weak sense of smell.