Everything You Need to Know About Andrew Zimmern's Lucky Cricket Scandal

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Restaurant editor Hilary Dixler Canavan joins us to help untangle the controversy that has circled the opening of Andrew Zimmern's first sit-down restaurant, Lucky Cricket. Eater NY editor Serena Dai talks about how Lucky Cricket plays into historic stereotypes regarding Chinese cuisine and people and writer Soleil Ho calls in to talk about her experiences dining at the restaurant. Read Soleil’ piece on Lucky Cricket here and subscribe to her podcast here. Hosted by Daniel Geneen. Complain to us [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is the Eder Op Cell, a podcast from Eder.com, obviously. We are brought to you by the
0:09.8	Vox Media Podcast Network. My name is Daniel Janine. I am a producer here at Eater. Today I am joined in the studio by Hillary Dixler Canavan. Hello Hillary.
0:21.5	Hi. You got it all. Yeah you got my whole name. Good job.
0:25.9	So Hillary has been the point person for a crazy kind of news cycle for us revolving around
0:32.3	the celebrity chef, celebrity TV host, Andrew Zimmern.
0:37.1	What do we need to know about this Andrew Zimmern lucky cricket restaurant?
0:41.9	Let's start with who Andrew Zimmerman is.
0:44.0	The real...
0:45.0	T. L. D.R. Andrew Zimmerman is famous for hosting the television show, Bazaar Foods, and it had a few different
0:51.6	series.
0:52.8	So in those shows, he sort of traveled the world,
0:55.2	tasted food, showed food to audiences.
0:58.7	Lucky Cricket is his first sit-down restaurant.
1:02.4	He does also have a business doing like stadium concessions,
1:06.0	but Lucky creates a sit-down restaurant focused on Chinese cuisine
1:09.1	that he is hoping to grow into a chain throughout the Midwest.
1:13.0	His take on P.F. Chang's.
1:15.0	Yeah, that's basically how he has explained it.
1:17.0	And what kind of food are they doing?
1:19.0	Pan-Chinese?
1:21.0	Right.
1:22.0	It's sort of not regionally specific.
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