Andrew Zimmern
Emmy and four-time James Beard Award winner Andrew Zimmern is a TV/Media personality, chef, writer, and social justice advocate. He is the creator, executive producer, and host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods franchise, MSNBC’s What’s Eating America, and the Emmy-winning The Zimmern List as well as 7 other television series. Zimmern has devoted his life to exploring and promoting cultural acceptance, tolerance, and understanding through food.
Zimmern is the founder and CEO of Intuitive Content, an award-winning production company that has been named a Realscreen Global Top 100 company for the last 3 years in a row. Zimmern is also the founder and CEO of Passport Hospitality, a restaurant and food service development company.
As a philanthropist and social justice advocate, Zimmern is an ambassador for the International Rescue Committee, the United Nations World Food Program, The Nature Conservancy, and sits on the board of several prominent foundations including EXPLR Media and The…
Food + Activism = Global Change
World-renowned chef Andew Zimmern has explored the great global food scene and shares incredible stories from his journeys around the world with a powerful prescriptive message of sustainability, equity, and social justice. Zimmern believes you really can change the planet one meal at a time. His talks are enlightening and always entertaining as he inspires audiences to learn about the world and other cultures from the perspective of the board room and the dinner table.
Overcoming Adversity: Becoming a Resilient Leader
World-renowned chef and entrepreneur Andrew Zimmern shares his deeply personal journey with addiction and sobriety and how he found his calling to tell stories through food and travel adventures. Balancing personal and professional moments of adversity, Zimmern offers an inspiring of hope, perseverance, and how to become a better leader through resilience. From navigating uncertainty to “co-regulating before operationalizing” to learning how to “act your way into right thinking,” Zimmern’s message is a blend of personal experience and his own prescription for resiliency and success.
Virtual Interactive Cooking Demos with Andrew Zimmern
World-renowned chef Andrew Zimmern knows how to engage your virtual audience and create magical events from his professional cooking studio. He can even share the recipes in advance so guests can have the thrill of cooking along with Andrew. What separates Andrew, however, is all that he is doing outside of the kitchen to bolster the restaurant industry, and the insights he has gained as a passionate student of what food says about us as people, families and a country. While he cooks, he chats about these insights and the many projects he is working on to bring us closer together - in meaningful ways- through food.
The Adventure of Recovery
Stay far away from what William James called the evil of "contempt prior to investigation". Andrew Zimmern has used this motto as a bedrock of both his personal and professional life. While most people know him as the host of his own wildly popular TV show, they might not know that he is also a survivor of drug addiction, alcoholism, and homelessness. Now in his 21st year of sobriety, his inspiring and funny story is a prescription for hope that can be applied to anyone regardless of their life situation. Zimmern grew up on the upper east side of NYC, was a daily drug user from the age of 15, and lay dying in a hospital bed at age 21 of acute alcohol poisoning. He continued to abuse drugs and booze for another 10 years before going homeless and off the grid in 1990. Drinking himself to death in a flop house hotel in January of 1992, he had a life-changing experience that saw him check into rehab, sober up, and stay clean. Devoting himself to helping others, his life changed, and his show Bizarre Foods is a direct result of his channeling that life choice, telling his stories through food and travel adventures. Zimmern combines his personal and professional stories in an audio and video presentation detailing his fall and rise, his experiences in recovery, and how those lessons have informed his life as a husband, adoptive father and activist for the social issues he holds dearest. Zimmern believes that the best way to change the world is to share a meal with a stranger and his family, telling stories from the fringe as you seek to learn about the world and yourself in the global classroom of the traveler's universe. His funny and inspiring message spans both the personal and the professional, and he gladly exemplifies the necessity for a public face to be put on the private hell of addiction.
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