Lucky Cricket is a cautionary tale for building a restaurant on a foundation of contradictions There may be no less lucky way to launch a major new Midwestern Chinese restaurant than categorically describing your mom-and-pop competition as “horseshit.” But that’s the tack world traveler and TV personality Andrew Zimmern took while launching his St. Louis … [ Read more]
Beyond Bizarre: Andrew Zimmern on the impact of ‘Bizarre Foods’ and his hopes for ‘The Zimmern List’
April 30, 2018 by
Andrew Zimmern is an ambassador of the weird. The four-time James Beard Award–winning TV personality, chef, writer, and teacher (and Minnesota resident) has been exploring odd and undiscovered foods around the world in his Travel Channel show “Bizarre Foods” for 11 years. His new show, “The Zimmern List,” which premiered this spring, embraces a different … [ Read more]
Crickets on the menu at GYST following documentary premiere
April 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Following the April 22nd premiere of The Gateway Bug, a documentary on the edible insect industry at this year’s Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, GYST Fermentation Bar will be hosting a dinner featuring a 4-course tasting menu full of crickets. The presumably crunchy fare will be paired with wine and beer courtesy of Tradition Wine and … [ Read more]
Zimmern, Lawson, Pépin on this year’s “Turkey Confidential”
November 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Every Thanksgiving, Lynne Rossetto Kasper opens the phone lines to solve your last-minute turkey conundrums. This year, she’ll have an all-star panel helping her out. Joining Lynne this year on The Splendid Table’s “Turkey Confidential” will be “Bizarre Foods” host Andrew Zimmern, cookbook author and food TV personality Nigella Lawson, and legendary chef and author Jacques … [ Read more]
