Feeling déjà vu? No, you aren’t crazy — Bullz-Eye’s Will Harris has indeed interviewed Andrew Zimmern before. But that was way back when Mr. Zimmern was only the host of “Bizarre Foods” — and now he’s got a brand new show to promote, the smartly titled “Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre World.” In honor of the new series, Andrew and Will renewed their acquaintance to discuss a variety of “Bizarre” topics, starting with the “Bizarre Foods” encounter with a witch doctor that indirectly inspired “Bizarre World”:
It was one of our favorite acts…and we didn’t eat a thing in it! I mean, the guy spat up on me, he beat me with poisonous branches, he beat a guinea pig to death against me, he blew smoke on me, he spat up on me again, he lit me on fire…and he did all of this stuff in the name of purging demons from me!
But fear not, “Bizarre Foods” fans — although the focus of the new series might be slightly different, it’s still cut from the same cloth as the show you’ve grown to love. As Zimmern puts it:
I’m a food guy, first and foremost, but I think that if you showed a cut of a ‘Bizarre World’ episode to a ‘Bizarre Foods’ fan, they would never notice that there’s less food. They would just be, I think, really psyched that there’s more non-food stories thrown in.
And of course, food or no food, the main ingredient of either show is Zimmern’s unabashed love for new experiences — a love that proves infectuous for viewers of all ages. In his own words:
The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing this show is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers, who say, ‘It’s something the whole family can watch, and it lets us show our younger children that one man’s ‘weird’ is another man’s ‘wonderful,’ and we all kind of live in the same place.’ It’s just the best part of my day.
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