Andrew Zimmern

I wanted to, because I wanted there to be something for everyone to take from this experience in this culture.

And we always had a family dinner episode because I wanted people in Finland to see how people in China ate.

And I wanted people in Uruguay to see how people in China ate.

And I wanted people in Arizona to see how people in Uruguay ate.

And I did that very consciously because I wanted people to see how much they had in common with each other in a world that was increasingly defining itself by the things that divided us.

So even though I may speak a different language, have different color skin, worship a different deity, listen to different music, have different sexuality, and on and on and on than whoever I was with, if we were sharing a meal, amazing things could happen, right?

And we would find out that we wound up having way more in common, even though on the face of it, it may appear that we were

very very different people from very very different walks of life yeah i believe our humanity in the general sense of the capital h is what defines us not all of those those other things and i remember being in finland we went up to lapland and we were having a dinner with some reindeer herders

and his family and we did the usual thing you know shots of the reindeer and i was milking a reindeer which is very difficult they give off they have the richest milk in the animal kingdom but they give off the least of it because it's so intense and then we made little pancakes with it we foraged for berries and we gathered crayfish in the river and then we wound up at his family table

With his wife and her parents and he and his wife's kids.

And there's like eight of us at the table and me.

And we edited it.

But before when we were there live, it was – what comes –

off as a minute in the show took two hours, right?

And we're sitting there, it always does.

And we're sitting there with this family and the grandmother is looking at the kids, you know, with this look, very stern and opening up her eyes and kind of turning away from me and like using her head kind of like a woodpecker at them.

And I look over at the kids and they're getting fidgety and, you know, they're like six and eight.

Right.

And they've got to sit at this table for two hours.

No kid can do that anywhere on planet Earth.