Award-Winning Chef Andrew Zimmern to Headline AltaSea’s Blue Hour 2026
Zimmern will lead a live cooking and tasting experience featuring sustainable seafood, sea vegetables, and alternative ocean-based proteins.
AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles is proud to announce that Andrew Zimmern, Emmy- and four-time James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, food equity and climate activist, author and Global Ambassador to the United Nations World Food Programme, will headline Blue Hour 2026, AltaSea’s annual fundraiser and immersive culinary experience. The event will take place Saturday, October 10, 5:30-10 PM at AltaSea’s oceanfront campus in San Pedro. Tickets are now on sale, with early-bird pricing available through August 8. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: https://altasea.org/blue-hour-2026/
Now in its seventh year, Blue Hour will bring together world-renowned chefs, ocean advocates, entrepreneurs, and changemakers to reimagine how food can help protect the planet. Zimmern will lead a live cooking and tasting experience featuring sustainable seafood, sea vegetables, and alternative ocean proteins.
Zimmern has spent decades championing responsible sourcing, healthier waterways, and the preservation of culinary traditions tied to coastal communities around the world. His career has been dedicated to using his platform to educating people about culture through food as evidenced by broadcast series including, MSNBC’s “What’s Eating America” and the PBS series, “Hope in the Water.” His recent cookbook, The Blue Food Cookbook, a sustainable seafood bible co-authored with Barton Seaver in collaboration with ocean food advocacy nonprofit Fed by Blue, highlights how feasible sustainable consumption really is. Zimmern joined AltaSea’s Board of Trustees earlier this year after receiving the organization’s Innovation Award at Blue Hour 2025.
