Andrew Zimmern: podcast appearances and interviews

Andrew Scott Zimmern, born on July 4, 1961, is an American chef, restaurateur, television and radio personality, director, producer, businessman, food critic, and author. He is known for co-creating, hosting, and serving as a consulting producer for the Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and its related programs, including Bizarre Foods America, Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, Dining with Death, The Zimmern List, and Andrew Zimmern's Driven by Food. Additionally, Zimmern has hosted the Food Network series The Big Food Truck Tip and created a webseries on YouTube titled Andrew Zimmern Cooks. In 2020, he launched another show, What's Eating America, on MSNBC. His work on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern has earned him the James Beard Foundation Award four times, in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2017. Zimmern is actively involved in the restaurant industry; in November 2018, he opened a Chinese restaurant called Lucky Cricket in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Although the restaurant faced challenges;including closure for remodeling, re-opening, and eventual permanent closure during the 2020 pandemic;his diverse career spans multiple facets of the culinary and media industries.