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Andrew Zimmern wins James Beard Award

Minnesota food celebrity and TV show host Andrew Zimmern has won a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Television Show on Location. His popular Bizarre Foods show is now in it's seventh season, with new episodes airing on the Travel Channel Mondays at 8 p.m. The James Beard Awards are known as the ... More >>

The Munchies food awards include several local nominees

The recipe-swap, dinner-inspiration, and food-porn website Tablespoon, recently announced nominees for the Munchies, their first ever People's Choice-style food and restaurant awards. They're  judged by an expert panel that includes hometown star Andrew Zimmern, and the nominees include well-kn ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern Chef Chat with the Bizarre Foods czar, Part 2

​Local chef turned big-time TV star Andrew Zimmern is bringing his wildly successful Bizarre Foods home to Minneapolis. The premiere episode of this all-American season, premiering Monday on the Travel Channel at 9 p.m., features Minnesota foods.  (It's the second episode he's filmed in his h ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern Chef Chat with the Bizarre Foods czar, Part 1

​After traveling the globe, conquering the world one plate at a time, Andrew Zimmern brings the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods home to roost. This season, which premieres Monday, Zimmern focuses entirely on food in the United States. To kick off the season, he's highlighting food from Minnesota. H ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern and Will Allen to headline Kickapoo Country Fair

Your healthy alternative to the typical deep-fried fair.​Save the date: The Midwest's largest organic food fest, the Kickapoo Country Fair, will take place on Saturday, July 30, in La Farge, Wisconsin. Event organizers from Organic Valley foods have recruited two keynote speakers with promin ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern wants you to watch Bizarre Foods tonight and help the homeless

Travel ChannelWatch Zimmern eat bizarre foods and help the homeless​Andrew Zimmern has been encouraging everyone via tweets to watch the San Francisco episode of Bizarre Foods tonight to help out 100,000 Homes Campaign, a charity organization that battles against homelessness. For every viewe ... More >>

Would Andrew Zimmern eat human flesh? [VIDEO]

Travel ChannelTo eat foreskin, or not to eat foreskin...​On tomorrow night's episode of Bizarre Foods, Minnesota local Andrew Zimmern travels to Madagascar, where he is forced to ask himself, "Would I eat human flesh?" He and his wife are honored guests at the ritual circumcision of a five-year-o ... More >>

Punch Pizza lauded by Travel Channel, offers $3 pizzas

The Travel Channel thinks Punch is among the world's best!​Andrew Zimmern took a break from kung fu fighting to name his hometown Punch Pizza his world fave on the following Travel Chanel segment. To celebrate, Punch is offering pizzas on Tuesday for just $3 a pop. Get the coupon and watch the vi ... More >>

Free Juicy Lucys at 5-8 Club on Monday

The 5-8 ClubThe Juicy Lucy, which some argue is a religious experience, features molten cheese surrounded by hamburger cooked to perfection placed on a whiter than white bun.​The 5-8 Club has declared November as Juicy Lucy month, and to celebrate they're giving away free Juicy Lucys from 4:30 to ... More >>

The Melting Pot celebrates boobs this Week in Food

Tschadi & ZehntnerEat this. ​We're all over the board this week, from pasta to Asian wine pairings to roaches and rodents to fondue for boobs. It's a lot to take on, but we know you're up to the challenge of this Week in Food. Monday 10/25 Get your eatin' pants on--it's World Pasta Day. The ... More >>

Piccolo's Doug Flicker: Chef Chat, part 2

A.J. Olmscheid​Today we return with the second part of our chef chat with Piccolo's Doug Flicker. Piccolo's "'mini-entrees" won the praise of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain when he visited the restaurant for the "Heartland" episode of his Travel Channel show, No Reservations, which aired in July. ... More >>

Piccolo's Doug Flicker: Chef Chat, part 1

A.J. Olmscheid​Doug Flicker, owner of the six-month-old restaurant Piccolo, sounds like a chef you wouldn't expect to see on television. He started working as a cook, he says, "because I didn't want to deal with going out on weekends." He says he's still more comfortable in the kitchen than ch ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern talks eating penises and stealing to buy drugs with Nightline

​Andrew Zimmern arrived in Minnesota in 1982 and headed to Hazelden to recover from a serious drug addiction. In subsequent years, the onetime chef became a food writer and host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods. This week, he was profiled on ABC's Nightline and shared a few stories on the ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain

​Andrew Zimmern arrived in Minnesota in 1982 and headed to Hazelden to recover from a serious drug addiction. In subsequent years, the onetime chef became a food writer and host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods. This week, he was profiled on ABC's Nightline and shared a few stories on the ... More >>

Food Wars Ju(i)cy Lucy episode airs tonight!

Less than two months after filming in the snow, "Food Wars: Ju(i)cy Lucy" airs tonight on the Travel Channel.

Best of Hot Dish: February 15-19, 2010

While Chinese figure skaters and the Flying Tomato were wooing us this week, we wrote about wine, coffee, meat, and more meat.

"Food Wars" films Ju(i)cy Lucy episode

Watch video clips from Travel Channel's visit to Cardinal Tavern.

This week's "Best of Hot Dish"

While we await news of Lindsey Vonn's fate, check out some non sports injury-related news we brought you this week.

Tickets to Anthony Bourdain on sale Friday

Forty bucks to hear a chef talk at the State Theatre? In this case, it might be worth it.

Bizarre World - Wisconsin airs tonight

Andrew Zimmern takes on Wisconsin in tonight's episode of "Bizarre World."

Andrew Zimmern

Andrew Zimmern takes on Wisconsin in tonight's episode of "Bizarre World."

Zimmern's book "The Bizarre Truth" out today

Andrew Zimmern's new book "The Bizarre Truth" comes out on shelves today.

Zimmern's new Bizarre World show premieres tonight

For the premiere of his new show "Bizarre World," Andrew Zimmern travels to Cuba and eats tree rats.

Man vs. Food Minneapolis airs tonight

Will Adam polish off a metric yard of meat, or will he go home red-faced?

Zimmern gets sexy with naked sushi at Hell's Kitchen

"Sexy Foods" episode guest stars LBV cocktailer Johnny Michaels, Alexis "on the sexes" McKinnis, and a pair of smoked salmon panties.

Man vs. Food visits 5-8 Club, Gasthof

Adam Richman and crew came to the Twin Cities to eat meat. Lots and lots of meat.

Man v. Minn.: GAME ON!

Twin Cities Man v. Food episode appears to be back on the table.

Man v. Food show coming to Minneapolis

Zimmern takes another shot

Andrew Zimmern endorses City Pages food critics

Foodie Fight

Travel Channel food star and local restaurant critic Andrew Zimmern throws down with a celebrated chef and two famous restaurant critics

Reservations with Anthony Bourdain

Travel Channel food star and local restaurant critic Andrew Zimmern throws down with a celebrated chef and two famous restaurant critics

Reservations with Anthony Bourdain

Travel Channel food star and local restaurant critic Andrew Zimmern throws down with a celebrated chef and two famous restaurant critics

Anthony Bourdain

Travel Channel food star and local restaurant critic Andrew Zimmern throws down with a celebrated chef and two famous restaurant critics

Nasty, Brutish, Shortish

Anthony Bourdain's newest, The Nasty Bits, is perfect summer reading: Riveting to pick up, easy to put down

A Crowded Table

TV's new chef-chic aesthetic isn't just for foodies

Fly Me to the Moon

To a house divided and a marriage that keeps going bump in the night