I love Anthony Bourdain. Not that I would ever want to sit and eat bugs with him, or for that matter keep up with him in a drinking contest.
Here he was asked about his opinion of the food network and all the 'chefs'. Typical Bourdain, he leaves no stone unturned. He whips, beats, and slices with the best.
Paula Deen: I am reluctant to bash what seems to be a nice old lady. Even if her supporting cast is beginning to look like the Hills Have Eyes and her food a True Buffet of Horrors.
Sandra Lee: A large racked blonde repeatedly urging Afghans and Angry Iraquis to stuff themselves with fatty, processed American foods might just be the weapon we need to win the war on terror.
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I adore Anthony Bourdain, and in a perfect world, some day I will sit down to a drinking contest with him. Then, awed by my intake abilities, he will want to marry me.
Colleen (that gossip!!) told me he has left his wife who he wrote so nicely about in Kitchen Confidential and has an Italian girlfriend and just had a baby!
I read Kitchen Confidential before we went to NYC at Christmas, and remembering his hatred of vegetarians, apologized to our waiter in an upscale restaurant for being a vegetarian! The waiter said, huh?
Originally posted by Pauline: Colleen (that gossip!!) told me he has left his wife who he wrote so nicely about in Kitchen Confidential and has an Italian girlfriend and just had a baby!
He seemed very much in love wigh his wife, or at least I got that impression as I read the book. Money, fame, and power do change people and relationship.
Seek another chef that you can rein in a bit more. There are loads of them. Some are also characters. Many are even available, given the hours they work make them a bit inaccessible. I was looking for an appealing photo of him recently. All I could find was Bourdain in that arms clutched across the chest self-protecting mode or lying in a mudbath. Pauline, I don't want you to apologize for vegetarianism until you become a vegan, which is just too difficult. I think you may do better with chefs who are not such dedicated carnivores, however.
Isn't it interesting how the Travel Channel is getting more and more food oriented and the Food Network is getting more and more travel oriented. Do you think part of Anthony's 'attack' on Food Network stars was not all just Anthony being Anthony and speaking his mind? Perhaps it is also part of an orchestrated marketshare battle between the two networks.
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Originally posted by Judith in Umbria: Pauline, I don't want you to apologize for vegetarianism until you become a vegan, which is just too difficult. I think you may do better with chefs who are not such dedicated carnivores, however.
I was a vegan for many years! We never went out to restaurants then.
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