Andrew Zimmern

Andrew, how are you doing today, brother?

Good, Nick.

How are you?

The day magically that they told me that my travel food idea that I had finally gotten into the boardroom to pitch at Travel Channel in 2004 was a PBS show and not a commercial television show.

And I had this idea called The Wandering Spoon.

Worst

named for a food travel tv show of all time and what i did was i wanted to you know teach the world about diving into other cultures through food there was at the time unbeknownst to me uh because you have to remember i'm we're we're pushing our show 2002 three four five tony had yet to anthony bourdain had yet to make cook's tour

which was on Food Network that got bought by Travel Channel, and they basically re-aired what didn't work on Food Network and renamed the show No Reservations and moved forward with that show that became so legendary.

Looking in the rearview mirror, I was eating whatever it was that was in that place.

When I was seven years old in Spain with my dad, I ate angulas, baby eels, and we ate whole roasted partridge, red-legged partridge in Asturias together in little restaurants.

And they were shot by a hunter.

You had to be careful of eating any shotgun pellets.

And then there was a tiny little resting

cradle looked like a chopstick rest and there was a heavy knife there.

And the idea was you would flip it around and use the handle and crack the skull and eat the brain.

And yeah, you know, this was something that was just been traditionally done for ever and ever there.

You know, I was a little kid.

I was eating big or no little French periwinkle snails in layout with my father when I was five baby.

I mean, literally two days later,

you know, past being fetal lamb and, and pig in Valley de los Cayedos, uh, in Spain with my dad.