Andrew Zimmern’s Kitchen Adventures
Recipes, travel tales, slideshows & more exclusive extras.
Grilled Pork Kalymnos-Style with Eggplant-and-Tomato Salad"Two years ago, I spent a week on the island of Kalymnos in the east end of the Greek Isles... One night before a shoot we were doing at a local home, several well-lubricated friends of the host made grilled pork and eggplant salad for the crew and me. It was one of the best meals of the trip; I still remember the smell of whole bunches of wild thyme, sage and rosemary being burned under the meat to flavor it. " more » 
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Q: Who had the biggest influence on you?
My father. He was larger than life. He loved travel, eating, food culture, exploring. My parents divorced when I was six, but stayed close. My dad moved downtown—it was kismet—to the West Village, where he befriended John Clancy, the Balduccis, James Beard—there was a whole sort of food mafia in the West Village. I went with my father when I was seven to have brunch at Jim Beard’s house. Stuff like that sticks with you. I see it now in my son. My wife and I do food-centric things when we travel. If parents get excited, so do kids.
Q: Growing up, what did you like to eat?
Even as a kid, I ventured out to ethnic restaurants all the time. We would go to Bo Bo’s in Chinatown and eat squab and salted dried shrimp in lettuce. I also went outside Manhattan to the other boroughs. Manhattanites didn’t do this in the 1960s. Brooklyn was a different country, Queens even more so.
Andrew Zimmern’s Lists
Insanely Great Pizza
1 Punch Pizza
2 Pizzeria Lola
3 Serious Pie
4 Pizzeria Bianco
5 Sally’s Apizza
Best Burgers
1 Travail Kitchen
2 JG Melon
3 Bobcat Bite
4 The Le Tub Saloon
5 The Counter
Although Zimmern is famous as the host of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods (during which he might cook porcupine belly over an open fire with Bushmen in Botswana), he's also a born-and-bred New Yorker, a classically trained chef and a Minneapolis-based home cook. As he says, "I'm a dad and a husband, and I live in the Midwest. I make things like roast chicken." He brings every part of his experience to his recipes for foodandwine.com, bridging the gap between exotic flavors and American comfort food. Your kitchen adventures with Zimmern begin here.
TELEVISION Catch Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel, Tuesdays at 9 p.m. E/P.
FACEBOOK Like Zimmern’s fan page here.
WEB Check him out on MSN’s appetiteforlife.msn.com.
BOOKS Find Zimmern's book, Bizarre Truth, on amazon.com.
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