Andrew Zimmern

And one of them is eat.

Now, not everyone in America in 2025 has a food life.

We have to be very careful about that.

It's one of the other things that drives me.

It's another because, right?

I've made a lot of money off of food.

I have a lot of success because of food.

I have made an impact because of food.

And yet I'm also part of the problem because I fetishize food while 20% of Americans don't know where their next meal is coming from.

So I work really hard to try to solve hunger and waste issues here in Minnesota, nationally in America and internationally with my work with the UN World Food Program.

But because we do this every day, food is a universal, right?

So I'll give you a couple of very general examples, perhaps from shows people have seen.

In every episode of Bizarre Foods, we always had a family meal, every single one.

We didn't put a circle around it.

We didn't put a lower third graphic underneath it.

We didn't flash lights to let everybody know, here's the family meal.

But we always sat down with the family in every single episode and ate.

And the reason why I insisted on that

along with several other storytelling silos.

I wanted a how it was made story.