American - Critic | July 4, 1961 -
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.
Andrew Zimmern
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Copper is a superb cooking metal, conducting heat so evenly it has unparalleled control, especially at low temperatures.
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The corner of the 'food media' that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don't really have a point or don't have a lesson to be learned. If you don't have a point, or if there's not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone's life, in my old age, I'm just not into it.
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As I famously said before, I don't like to waste meals. I'm no one's food snob.
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I'd be very happy serving on a local school board. I just know that I have a responsibility to give back.
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Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect example: I spent a whole day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, scouring the trunks of dead palm trees for grubs.
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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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My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.
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The greatest food city in the world is New York City, just in terms of depth and breadth, variety, size, infrastructure.
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I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.
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I think that Manila is underrated in terms of food in the Philippines.
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Too many children and adults go hungry every day.
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