Andrew Zimmern’s Seattle Episode Airs February 6
See which area food destinations get air time.
Posted by: Allecia Vermillion on Jan 18, 2012 at 02:15PM
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Seattle is about to get another moment of fleeting food TV glory. You know, something to tide you over between November’s sad four-way elimination of our local Top Chef contestants, and the debut of Check, Please! Northwest on March 8. Food guy Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods America series premieres January 23 on the Travel Channel, and the Seattle episode airs on Monday, February 6.
Zimmern is usually described as a guy who spends his days eating opossum entrails and whatever other grossout oddities his producers can scare up in a particular country or region. But he’s also an articulate champion of local food cultures. Before joining Seattle Met, I interviewed the TV host on the heels of his Seattle visit and listened to him rave about a variety of spots, including Canlis. Though Zimmern dined there off duty, he did recently deem it one of his best meals of 2011.
The affable host recently did a conference call for reporters (dude is media savvy) to discuss the upcoming season, the first time Bizarre Foods has focused entirely on domestic destinations. The Seattle highlights he hit in the call included spending time in the kitchen with Modernist Cuisine mastermind Nathan Myhrvold and planting and harvesting geoducks with Taylor Shellfish Farms. Honestly, did you think Andrew Zimmern was going to visit our part of the world and not tangle with a geoduck?
His other Seattle stops included Seattle Coffee Works, Vashon Island’s Sea Breeze Farm, FareStart, and Maneki. It will be interesting to see which local favorites get screen time, and in what proportions. As always, air dates are subject to last minute changes.
Tags: Seattle on TV, Andrew Zimmern
Andrew Zimern deeming Canlis the place where he had one of his best meals in 2011 confirms his tasteless media-hungry pedestrian-ness.
No offense to Canlis.. I’ve eaten there many times in the past. It’s nice, it’s consistent, it’s pedestrian for Seattle’s cutting edge food industry.
Andrew might as well have picked the best burger at Red Robin. All is right in the world. This guy is a sham. Who invited him to Seattle?
I think LuAnne hit the nail on the head. Red Robin is right. Besides, who ever heard of Kidd Valley or for that matter the food vendors at Pike Place..