American - Critic | July 4, 1961 -
In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.
Andrew Zimmern
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Way back in the day, I used to cook for Thomas Keller at Rakel in New York City. Keller is a down to earth, kind, supportive person. I wish people could see that.
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I'd rather be a good guest in someone's home than tell them I don't like their food or make fun of them.
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The restaurant industry in New York in the '80s was a good place to hide out if you had issues.
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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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I consider a perfect hot dog on the street to be as valid a food experience as dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
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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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I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.
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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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My life gets better every year.
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When I go into a steakhouse and order a steak, I'll order the cut of my choice, and I'll order it black and blue. And I'll ask them to bring it with my first course, and I'll just let it sit there.
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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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