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Our time in this world is limited…
“Our time here is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by trying to live up to other’s expectations. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition because they already know what you truly want to become!”
Andrew Zimmern’s Bio – Bizarre Food TV Show
Chef Andrew Zimmern’s Biography
Andrew Zimmern, is a respected Chef, TV personality, food writer and teacher. He is also the creator, host and consulting producer of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods TV show. The 49 year-old Zimmern, is a resident of Edina, Minnesota. He is a husband to Rishia and father to the 4 year old Noah. He is most well known for eating bizarre foods from all over the world. Even so, he cannot eat the durian fruit that grows in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. Yes, Andrew Zimmern’s nemesis is Durian.
Andrew was born on July 4, 1961 to a Jewish family in New York. He Began his culinary training when he was 14. He attended the Dalton School and graduated from Vassar College. Andrew has contributed to many of New York’s finest restaurants as either executive chef or general manager, and has also lectured on restaurant management and design at The New School for Social Research.
Despite his accomplishments, Andrew hasn’t always led such a successful life. In fact, this very successful and popular chef and a blogger of Chow & Again was a severe drug and alcohol addict. He told Nightline Tonight on July 27, 2010, “you’re living the life where you are constantly beat up, abused, abusing other people, doing something horrifically shameful and tawdry things that crater your soul – you give away pieces of yourself that you swear you would never do. I was the guy you crossed the street to avoid if you walked by me in New York. I lived in an abandoned building in lower Manhattan; one that we squatted – a bottle gang and I, stole purses for money to support my drug and alcohol habit.”
In 1992, Zimmern left New York and moved to Minnesota, where he checked into the Hazelden Treatment Center for drug and alcohol addiction treatment. In his words: “a homeless, alcohol- and drug-addled wreck.” After being rehabilitated and becoming sober, Andrew got his life back and gained wide acclaim as the executive chef of Cafe Un Deux Trois in Minneapolis. Having found his haven in cooking, Andrew’s menus received the highest ratings from the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Monthly, Minneapolis-St.Paul Magazine, as well as national publications.
Two of his mottos are: “One man’s weird is another man’s wonderful. Change our world one good odd meal at a time.” and “If it looks good eat it.” Apparently, bugs, spiders and organs look good to him and that’s why he doesn’t have any problem eating them all.
Prior to Bizarre Foods, Zimmern had an extensive radio career. His shows Chowhounds, The Andrew Zimmern Show, and Food Court with Andrew Zimmern achieved wide popularity in the Twin Cities.
Additionally, Zimmern was the food features reporter for Fox 9 News Minneapolis, and was also a featured contributor on both HGTV’s Rebecca’s Garden and Tip-ical Mary Ellen, where he handled on air food duties for both shows. He was the food and lifestyle features reporter during the 1997 season of the UPN network’s nationally televised Everyday Livin.
Andrew is also the author of The Bizarre Truth, a columnist of Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine and a senior editor at Delta Sky Magazine. He starred in The Cooking Club of America’s instructional video series. In May 2010, Andrew became a James Beard Award-winning TV personality. This “fat and bald guy” as I described him when I was having a problem remembering his name is the international spokesman for Travel Leaders and Elite Destination Homes.
His online series, Toyota’s Appetite for Life, won an Effie Award in 2010. Bizarre Foods also took home two CableFax awards in 2009, one for Best Television Program: Food, another for Best Online Extras for Andrew’s other web series, Bizarre Foods in the Kitchen.
Andrew has a lot of recipes on his website but two Asian recipes in particular caught my attention: Hotel Saigon’s Beef Rolls which is just a very simple ground beef rolled in grape leaves. And Chicken Satay which is a GBD (golden brown delicious) which BBQ chicken thighs with curry powder and fish sauce.
I first got to know this bubbly Chef while I was still in the Philippines when my husband told me about this Bizaare Foods TV Show hosted by the fat and bald guy. Keith told me this because Andrew went to the Philippines, specifically to Manila – the capital of the Philippines to feature our country in his TV show. What surprised me was that he ate balot. Balot is an 18 day old duck egg that has the dead chick inside. This is one of the most common of Filipino traditional foods. Literally, the chick is dead inside because the balot makers, wait for the eggs to be 18 days old and then cook it by incubating it. When you open the egg, you will notice a brown “sauce” which is actually the blood of the chick and then you will, of course, see the chick and has to eat it itself. Even as a Filipino, I am not eating that! I haven’t eaten it ever and I have no plans of eating it. But, Andrew Zimmeren ate it! I was surprised and shocked! That one episode really led to me watching almost all his shows.
He is really a very unusual and quirky man. But when I found out that he used to be a severe drug and alcohol addict who had turned his life around and is now a successful chef, writer, and tv show host, it really increased my interest. That is a phenomenal story!
The point here is that your past doesn’t necessarily have to define your present and your future. If you are willing to change for your success and have the vision to be successful, you definitely can. Therefore, you don’t have to be perfect all the time to be successful. Most of the times, challenging failures can help you get to your destination.
That’s why in three to five years from now I want to be an Executive Chef and in six to ten years from now have a profitable and successful Filipino-American restaurant that would introduce real Filipino good and odd food meals yet delicious to St. Louis, Missouri.
Citations:
http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=26187774
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beard_Award
http://blogs.mspmag.com/chowandagain/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern
http://www.mspmag.com/homes/hometours/2007hometours/75229.asp
http://eater.com/archives/2010/07/27/andrew-zimmern-discusses-druggie-past-on-nightline-tonight.php
A Plan without Purpose is in vain
When you want to accomplish something you make a plan for it so it will serve it’s purpose.
For example, when I wanted to learn how to drive here in the United States 3 yrs ago, my purpose is to be able to find an income to support my family (my mother back in the Philippines and my husband). So I planned on practicing driving as often as I can. Because I don’t have a that time, I always asked my husband, I asked him everyday. To let me drive his manual stick car. It’s not a problem, because I have been driving for 5 yrs in the Philippines using manual. I also asked Janice my filipina friend to practice drive me if ever she got time off.
I passed the written test after taking it twice. And I passed the vision test one take. One thing I can never forget is during the vision test is the Red Hexagon sign. I forgot what that means. That’s the only one left for me to answer. – I am not used to seeing that, because we don’t have stop signs in the Philippines. — Oh well, I just said to the officer who tested me, “Danger sign.” She didn’t laugh at all, but I did laugh out loud after taking that test. I felt like I was one of the contestants of the dumb and dumber contest. Hahaha!
The driving test? I failed it 3x. I failed because I didn’t see the STOP SIGNS 3x!!!
I finally passed after waiting 60 days to retake. After taking the requirement of driving lesson from real driving instructor and pay him $95 for 5 days, 2 hours a day of practice driving. He emphasized the importance of turning your head to the right or left when you merge. He taught me to have a full stop for the 4-way, 3-way and 2-way stop sign. (Janice taught me all these too).
So, in April 2008, 1yr and 1 month since I stepped on the US soil, I got my drivers license. And after 2 wks, I got my 1st pre-owned car here through a monthly payment plan with a very sweet interest rate of 4.2%!
The purpose of all these hard work? To be able to go from one place to another, specifically to find a job to earn money to help my family. I got myself a GPS too, from my 1st real estate commission. So I won’t be lost. (Because I got lost so badly and so funny, the very first time I drove my car, ahahhah! that’s another story).
My point, if you set a plan for yourself. Pin point the PURPOSE of that PLAN. Because you can take whatever steps on those plans, but you can only have ONE PURPOSE out of those plans.
Have you set a Purpose for your plan this year, this month, this week? Or even today?
Gina
Yesterday was one of those days…
Yesterday was one of those days…
Yesterday was one of those days that even if I already planned everything and wrote everything there were still a lot of thoughts, ideas, and everything floating around my brain. I was driving going to the Vet Hospital with my one and only Shih Tzu son, and boy my brain was running like 90 miles per hour!
That wasn’t fun! Because I felt the “RUSH” and the “COMMOTION” inside my brain that affected the way I was driving.
Oh well, nothing bad happened. It’s just that when this happens, what I do is take a deep breathe and get my DIGITAL RECORDER that I always carry with my in my purse. So I recorded everything in there. I usually start with the date, the time and what I am doing while I am recording that moment. Then, after I say everything that’s on my mind, I make sure I saved that record, close or turn off the recorder and forget everything. That really cleared my mind!
Then after we went to the vet, Ando and I had a good walk, and I allowed myself, gave myself a permission to relax and free my mind of anything that moment. Because I already saved it in my recorded. “Record it and forget it.”
Then, we went home so I can prepare to go to work in 45 mins. When I am at work, (I am a Weight Management Consultant), I am at work. I do everything that I have to do to perform well in my job to give clients my undivided attention, being in the moment with them to have full customer satisfaction.
When I go out from work, I leave everything in my office in relation to work. I know, it’s hard to do. I didn’t know how to do that before. But you know what, just do it! Just don’t think of anything else about work when you get home. Give your undivided attention to your family. Now, I can’t forget to talk about my office mates of course. My husband and I talk about how goofy, how pathetic some of our office mates are, and just having fun.
You have a life after your work!
My point is, ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE IN THE MOMENT WHERE EVER YOU ARE, SO YOU CAN AND WILL HAVE FUN.
This will only happen if you know HOW TO PRIORITIZE. Take a look at how our Simply Effective Planner can help you with this. http://www.simplyeffectiveplanner.com.
Help!
Help! I am overwhelmed! I don’t have enough time or money.
I’m running a business, running a household, and running in
circles. What should I do to get my life back now?
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