Chef Andrew Zimmern, carrying a blue chore jacket, stands in entrance of his kitchen island.
Ask the chef Andrew Zimmern when he arrived within the Twin Cities, and he’ll reply with unsparing element: “The night time of Jan. 28, 1992. I had tried to kill myself 4 or 5 days earlier, and I used to be on the finish of my rope, a horrible consumer of individuals and taker of issues and an energetic addict and alcoholic.”
Chef Andrew Zimmern, carrying a blue chore jacket, stands in entrance of his kitchen island.
By then, he had no dwelling, so he’d discovered room at a flophouse in New York the place he awoke days after “consuming a fistful of barbiturates” and ingesting a bottle of vodka, he stated. He managed to name a pal and check out one thing new: “Ask for assist.”
Chef Andrew Zimmern, carrying a blue chore jacket, stands in entrance of his kitchen island.
Assist arrived within the type of a ticket to Minneapolis and a spot on the remedy middle now referred to as the Hazelden Betty Ford Basis. Mr. Zimmern, 64, has remained within the Twin Cities ever since. “The recovering group right here and the meals group right here beloved me up at a time after I wasn’t capable of love myself,” he stated. “With out these folks, I wouldn’t have something.”
