106 Quotes by Andrew Zimmern

The restaurant industry in New York in the '80s was a good place to hide out if you had issues.

Sardinia has to have some of the best seafood on the planet. I'm a sea urchin freak, and Sardinia's are some of the best I've had.

I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.

Everyone knows about hot dogs and the Big Apple. But for me, New York City street food is all about the Biryani Cart.

Even as a kid, I ventured out to ethnic restaurants all the time.

I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.

Some of the oddest foods I've encountered are 'American' foods represented internationally.

As a young boy growing up in New York City, we would spend our summers on the South Fork of Long Island. My dad would take me down to the beach at low tide. We would walk a mile down to the jetties, and he would lower me by my ankles into the crevices between the massive boulders to grab at huge ropes of mussels.

My parents divorced when I was six but stayed close.