Zimmern is joined by Andrés to reveal the role immigrants play in putting food on America's table. Throughout the premiere, Zimmern and Andrés go behind-the-scenes to unravel U.S. immigration policies.
The U.S. food system is heavily impacted by climate change. Zimmern travels to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the native perch fish is disappearing from the warming waters of Lake Michigan. In New Jersey, he meets scientists creating the farm of the future.
Zimmern focuses on the increasing issue of alcohol and addiction in the restaurant business and how it offers a path forward to people in recovery.
Zimmern goes on a trip to Southern battleground states, sharing food with voting rights activists, meeting with reformed felons battling to have their rights reinstated, and questions the politicians behind voting registration bills.
Zimmern journeys to the heart of the country to see the state of health care in America, where people are eating more junk food than ever before.