Andrew Zimmern

This is a very simple, basic example of how our shared humanity is so much bigger than the things that you would think might divide us, right?

I would go all the way to a glass of juice that I had with one of the world's most famous terrorists who lives in seclusion in Jericho with Israeli tanks on a hill trained at his house.

We did a story in one of our shows about a woman's couscous cooperative in Jericho.

There are no men that live in this little village on the outskirts of Jericho.

They all are either dead or off fighting jihad somewhere.

The women, it's a patriarchal society.

The women decided, screw this.

We need a clinic.

We need a library.

We need a school.

Right.

So several of the women got together and said, we're going to hand roll couscous, dry it and sell it.

It's an exquisite, beautiful product.

And through the sale of this product throughout the Arab world, and it's even imported here into this country, at least it was.

We're able to fund.

the school, the library, the clinic, and improve the lives of all the people in this village outside of Jericho.

So we spent all day shooting this scene.

It was unbelievable.

I rolled couscous with them.

Then they all cook lunch together, eat lunch, and then they go home because they do the work early in the morning and end about noon when the heat of the day just gets too hot at that time of year.