Andrew Zimmern Andrew Zimmern is a very popular chef known for traveling the world and trying strange foods that most people would not even think of eating. However, he has not always been the person many people know him as. Andrew attended The Dalton School and Vassar College before opening and managing several restaurants with three other popular chefs. Although he had a very successful life up until that point, he also struggled with alcohol and heroin. These addictions led to him losing his apartment and living on the streets for a year. When he was at the age of thirty, his friends sent him on a trip to help him recover from his alcohol and heroin addictions. While the trip worked, it also introduced Andrew Zimmern to eating strange foods;