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Chef Andrew Zimmern hunts, cooks wild animals, creates recipes 'for anybody' watching his show
Chef Andrew Zimmern knows that most viewers of his new show “Field to Fire” do not have access to freshly hunted nilgai. Or squirrel. Or deer. Or an open flame to cook these things.
But that’s OK, he said: He has plenty of recipe variations to offer.
“Field to Fire,” airing on the Outdoor Channel, is a new twist on a classic cooking show. The Emmy Award- and James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef and writer is taking viewers up close and into the woods as he hunts and fishes for the very proteins he later cooks over an open fire.
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“‘Field to Fire’ finally allows us to show people how we’re spending our time in the outdoors before we actually get into our outdoor kitchen,” Zimmern told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview. (See the video at the top of this article.)
Showing what happens effectively behind the scenes of a cooking show, Zimmern said, is “a wonderful thing for people to see.”
In “Field to Fire,” chef Andrew Zimmern, right, takes viewers out hunting and fishing for the food he later cooks. (Intuitive Content)
“They’ll meet incredible characters. I think the people who spend their lives devoted to hunting and fishing are some of our most adamant conservationists,” he said. “And I’m just delighted that this show is off to a rocking start.”
During filming, Zimmern traveled throughout the southern United States and his home state of Minnesota. He harvested everything from sheepshead to squirrels, he said.
Zimmern described himself as “someone who’s predicated their entire life on having an encyclopedia of foods that he’s tried over the years that no one else can touch.”
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Even so, he found himself trying new things during filming – something both delightful and disgusting, he said.
“The real surprises have been [that] some of the species that I’ve been able to hunt and fish for are new for me,” he said.
Among the foods new to him were Texas alligator gar, which he described as “absolutely one of the most worthless pieces of fish” he had ever eaten.
Zimmern, right, caught and ate an alligator gar – something he said was “one of the most worthless pieces of fish” he has ever eaten. (Intuitive Content)
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Elias Abdul Shabazz, 34, formerly of Perris, was found guilty by a jury following a five-day trial, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Prosecutors said Shabazz had led the victim to believe they were in a romantic relationship before he turned physically and sexually violent. He began demanding that the victim engage in commercial sex acts from May to October of 2021, court documents said.
He carried a handgun with him and, on occasion, was accused of using it to pistol-whip the victim. He also fired the gun at her feet while threatening to kill her, prosecutors said.
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“Elias Shabazz preyed on a vulnerable victim using physical and sexual violence and cruel psychological coercion to compel commercial sex acts for his own profit,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “There is no place for this type of conduct in civilized society. We deeply respect the victim’s courage to face her trafficker in court. The Criminal Division will continue to bring these cases and try them.”
Anyone with information about human trafficking can report tips to the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888-373-7888
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