"I had tried to kill myself four or five days earlier, and I was at the end of my rope, a horrible user of people and taker of things and an active addict and alcoholic. By then, he had no home, so he'd found room at a flophouse in New York where he woke up days after eating a fistful of barbiturates and drinking a bottle of vodka, he said. He managed to call a friend and try something new: Ask for help."
"Help arrived in the form of a ticket to Minneapolis and a spot at the treatment center now known as the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. Mr. Zimmern, 64, has remained in the Twin Cities ever since. The recovering community here and the food community here loved me up at a time when I wasn't able to love myself, he said. Without those people, I wouldn't have anything."
"The exterior of Andrew Zimmern's black brick house features curves and angles. Perhaps the clearest example of what he does have a 3,600-square-foot spread purchased just before the Covid-19 pandemic, then reimagined and renovated is something he prizes more than most. A wooded area of tall trees and tufted grass. Designed in the '80s by the local architect Keith Waters, who is known for soaring ceilings, curved walls and copious windows, the house sits on more than two acres."
Andrew Zimmern arrived in the Twin Cities on Jan. 28, 1992 after a suicide attempt following days of barbiturate and vodka use. Homeless, he woke in a New York flophouse, called a friend and accepted a ticket to Minneapolis and treatment at the center now known as the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. He has remained in the Twin Cities and credits the recovering and food communities with saving him. He purchased and renovated a 3,600-square-foot house before the Covid-19 pandemic, set on more than two acres with Norwegian red pines and tall grasses. The house, designed by Keith Waters, features soaring ceilings, curved walls and many windows.
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