Andrew Zimmern Quotes
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In the frequently-asked-question category, the question I get asked almost as much as 'What's the worst thing you've ever eaten?' is 'What's the best pair of pants to travel in, work in, trek in, and use on the road for the most activities possible?'
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Be aware of what you cook tomatoes with. The high acid content of the tomato slows down the cooking process of some other foods. Dried beans cooked with tomatoes added to the pot can take up to 20 percent more cooking time than beans without tomatoes added.
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Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.
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Everyone seems to ask me the same 10 questions, and high on the list is, 'What pans should I be cooking with and why?'
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The biggest thing that I learned is when you're building something - especially a project that requires partners - you have to make sure that there is a lot of overlapping desire and a lot of overlapping alignment with the people that you're doing work with.
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The Internet has democratized content, and the gatekeepers are no longer in control. That democracy is wonderful for entrepreneurs.
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I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.
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For wok cooking, use oils with a high smoke point and low polyunsaturated-fat content: grapeseed oil, peanut oil, etc. Sesame oil and olive oil will burn and taste bitter. Oils with high polyunsaturated-fat contents like soybean oil will also make your food texturally unpleasant.
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As a young boy growing up in New York City, we would spend our summers on the South Fork of Long Island. My dad would take me down to the beach at low tide. We would walk a mile down to the jetties, and he would lower me by my ankles into the crevices between the massive boulders to grab at huge ropes of mussels.
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I will tell you flat out that I continually find Yelp and products like it to be increasingly worthless to me as a consumer.
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Everything happens in the kitchen. Life happens in the kitchen.
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I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.
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When I was 13, I came back from summer camp - summer of '74 - and my mother had had an accident during surgery and was in an oxygen tent in a coma. It was so traumatic. My parents had been divorced for six or seven years at that point, and it was sort of the seminal event of my life.
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I have a tremendous platform and responsibility to talk to people about these issues about sustainability and about health and wellness when it comes to food.
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My life gets better every year.
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Some of the oddest foods I've encountered are 'American' foods represented internationally.
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Too many Americans are getting sick on our over-commercialized food system.
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Everyone knows about hot dogs and the Big Apple. But for me, New York City street food is all about the Biryani Cart.
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Yelp is - I mean, Yelp's not even good for looking up the restaurant's phone number because, you know, on the site, they just want you to read their reviews and look at their ads. They don't even actually want to give you the information about the restaurant or the menu.
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I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.
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You can tell the history of people on a plate.
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I use vinegars to deglaze saute pans for sublime sauces.
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There's fresh fish, and then there's fresh fish. Samoa is ranked as one of the best places for game fishing in all the world, and runs thick in the waters off the island chain. In fact, it's used as an edible currency in local markets. The day I fished there, we caught loads of yellowfin.
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I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving.