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Andrew Zimmern
Creator, Producer, TV Personality, Chef, Writer, Author | Bizarre Foods franchise, What’s Eating America, and The Zimmern List
Experience
2025 - Present
Food Service Contracting
Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream
2025 - 2025
Panel Participant
Tastemade's Forking Delicious
2022 - 2022
Contributor
White House Strategic Policy for Hunger, Nutrition and Health
White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
Washington, DC2020 - 2020
Daytime Emmy Award Winner for “Outstanding Travel and Adventure Program”
The Zimmern List
2019 - 2019
Author
Alliance of World Explorers, Volume 1: AZ and the Lost City of Ophir
2014 - Present
Founder
Intuitive Content (Andrew Zimmern’s Driven by Food, The Zimmern List, What’s Eating America, Family Dinner, Amdrew Zimmern’s Wild Game Kitchen, Field to Fire)
2012 - 2012
Author
Andrew Zimmern’s Field Guide to Exceptionally Weird, Wild, Wonderful Foods
2011 - 2011
Author
Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre World of Food: Brains, Bugs and Blood Sausage
2009 - 2009
Author
The Bizarre Truth
2003 - 2021
Co-Creator, Host, Consulting Producer
Bizarre Foods Franchise
1997 - Present
Founder
Food WorksMinneapolis, MN
1992 - 1997
Executive Chef
Cafe Un Deux TroisMinneapolis, MN
1990 - 1992
Dishwasher
Cafe Un Deux TroisMinneapolis, MN
Education
1984
Vassar CollegePoughkeepsie, NY
The Dalton SchoolNew York, NY
Advice from Andrew Zimmern
Quotes about career path, skills, and teamwork from an industry leader.
If you can do certain skills in the restaurant business, you can have a job for life
There was nowhere else I wanted to be other than restaurants.
There was no other people I wanted to spend time with more than food people.
It is an incredibly unique group of people that represent our industry, both public-facing on the floor and behind the scenes, making your food, washing your dishes, putting things away in refrigerators, doing the prep work and all the rest of that.
So it's a very, very unique population that, number one, I felt at home with, but number two, has to be looked after with great care.
If you love this industry as much as I love this industry, if you love the world of hospitality, if this is your thing, then fight harder than you've ever fought for anything.
Stay in it, be in it, be the agent of change, be additive, not subtractive
To me, we do life not for the things, but for the ways that we can affect change and be a good global citizen and be remembered as someone who made a difference for other people.
When I started focusing on everyone else other than me, incredible things started to happen.
My interest in hospitality started with two things.
My parents entertained a lot. I think being at their table and seeing the reaction that other people had to food being served to them was probably first. Second was probably traveling around the world with my father as much as I did.
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