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Food personality Andrew Zimmern speaks out against Yelp

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Bourdain will talk travel anecdotes, roasted meats, and the international food community with Andrew Zimmern this spring

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The world may know him as the guy who goes for the business end of the animal, but we once knew him as the celebrated chef of the late, lamented Cafe Un Deux Trois. Bizarre Foods mastermind Andrew Zimmern will be getting into the food truck business and making his debut at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.
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Controversial globe shot: Can you spot what's missing?

As contentious debates go, the dispute between Palestine and Israel is right up there near the top. Many lives have been lost and a peace accord has been elusive. It's not a discussion one would expect to be addressed between two chefs, on either side of the divide, aired over social media, but that is exactly what happened yesterday. 
It came to light that chef Sameh Wadi of Saffron and World Street Kitchen had posted a picture of a globe on his Facebook page showing Palestine but not Israel. His accompanying caption read, "We need more world maps that are correct, such as this one!" Wadi is of Palestinian origin. When one "friend" pointed out, "This 'map' is missing Israel..." Wadi responded, "Exactly the way that this should be." Television personality and fellow chef Andrew Zimmern saw the picture and publicly called out Wadi.

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Back in the US of A

​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 home state.)  Yesterday we chatted with him about some of his favorite places to travel in the US and the local food movement (click here to catch up).  Today, we get much more personal, discussing family foods, fetid lakes, and why most of the food critics in this town are tiny.

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Back in Minnesota and ready to share our weird with the world

​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. He took a break from his stuffed schedule to chat with us about travel, home, and the huevos of one particular local chef.

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Watch 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 viewer who watches the episode, Travel Channel will donate 10 cents to the Campaign, up to $100,000, according to the television network.More »

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To 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-old boy. Traditionally, the paternal grandfather eats the foreskin, after it's been snipped, with a side of banana (seriously). However, the grandfather can pass the foreskin to an honored guest, in this case the beloved Minnesota foodie himself.

Watch what happens.

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Zimmern and Richman go all Charlie's Angels at Brasa.

If Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern wanted to be the next Jet Li, he'd probably have to spend less time on airplanes and log a few more hours at the gym.

But thanks to some green screen magic, the rotund television star is able to take out at least four weapon-toting thugs half his age with some pretty sweet kung fu moves displayed in this new 30-second promo. Check it out:

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