Paula Deen got to where she’s at because she started her own small buisness which became a successfull restaurant......Bourdain became famous because he wrote a snarky,snoby, book bashing people and someone thought it would be a good travel show.
Paula Deen still acts down home and Bourdain tends to act like his a celebrity and look down his nose at people.
He probably hates all of us born & bred south of the Mason-Dixon line.
"What was Jesus's position on gout?" and linked to Deen's "The Lady's Brunch Burger" recipe -- which calls for butter, bacon, eggs and glazed donuts in place of hamburger buns -- saying, "I give you the 'horrific' 'Lady's Brunch Burger' (yikes) this erodes our military readiness!"
I'm gonna have to agree with Tony on this one. Paula is NOT a chef, but even her assumed "Southern Home Cookin'" is NOT what I ever ate as a Southerner. Some friends who went to her restaurant in Savannah said it was a "tourist trap", expensive for what you get and "Southern schtick on a stick" - not good dining. I also can't watch her cooking shows because of the affectatious Southern drawl (pap-a-rika for paprika; hay-am for ham). I can't think of one thing she ever made that I would try to duplicate. Sorry. Bourdain is not known as a "sweet" or "kind" person, but at least he is honest. I've watched his No Reservations show several times and I actually liked him.
I used to watch his show until one day he talked abut going outside of New York into flyover country and really sounded like one of those pansy boys from the city who think everyone out here is toothless and uneducated.That was enough for me.They can find him dead one day of alcohol poisoning for all I care he is a real *ick!
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