Quotes by Andrew Zimmern

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.

The greatest food city in the world is New York City, just in terms of depth and breadth, variety, size, infrastructure.

My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.

I serve on a lot of charitable boards - the areas of mental health parity, services for those that are underserved, and certainly children's rights are things that I believe in very, very strongly.

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

I find that most home cooks don't get vinegars. They're misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with... that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things!

After attending The Dalton School and then Vassar College, I began cooking in New York City restaurants helmed by Anne Rosenzweig, Joachim Splichal and Thomas Keller.

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.

Let me say this: Camel is delicious, but when handled improperly, it's rank.