Andrew Zimmern at Feast Portland

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 5:10 p.m.

b'The industry icon discusses some very real changes going on in the hospitality industry right now with HRN host Andrew Friedman and HRN Executive Director Caity Moseman Wadler. You\\u2019ll hear a lot of words not typically associated with restaurant kitchens. He also talks about the most influential people he\\u2019s met on his travels and offers a preview of Lucky Cricket, his new restaurant.\\n\\nAndrew Zimmern is a four-time James Beard award-winning TV personality, chef, writer, teacher and gracious dinner guest. As the creator, executive producer and host of the Bizarre Foods franchise on the Travel Channel, Andrew Zimmern\\u2019s Driven by Food and The Zimmern List, he has explored cultures in more than 170 countries. He has also written three books, contributes to Food & Wine Magazine and is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Babson College. Andrew is the founder and CEO of both Intuitive Content, a full-service production company that develops and produces dynamic original content, and Passport Hospitality, a restaurant and food retail development company. He is devoted to his charitable endeavors and sits on the board of directors for Services for the UnderServed, Second Harvest Heartland and Taste of the NFL. His life\\u2019s work is about demonstrating and promoting cultural acceptance, tolerance and understanding through food.'