Anthony Bourdain
Posted on 05/22/2010 6:21:41 PM PDT by nhwingut
WARNING....WARNING....may be offensive to some...
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Anthony Bourdain
there may be help for Tony yet:
Your heart may be happy about this, but your tongue won’t be. Kitchen Confidential author Anthony Bourdain, speaking for chefs everywhere, describes salt as the one irreplaceable ingredient in the kitchen. “It’s what makes food taste good,” he says. “Traditional, intelligent and skilled used of salt has become confused in the minds of nanny-state nitwits with the sneaking of salt into processed convenience foods. Nothing else encapsulates the mission of the food ideologues better than this latest intrusion: they desire a world without flavor.”
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More people will see the YouTube video than see him on CNN. Anthony is irrelevant.
yes, i like watching his show for food, it is NOT going to change my political view at all watching his show.
No comment.
What is Rachel Ray’s position on the Tea Party... or the dog whisperer.. or the Pawn Stars?
He is heavily sponsored by the Chicoms and has a love affair with every communist dictatorship in the world. He travels to every one, where he is treated like a king. And they pay him very very well for it.
He especially loves Vietnam. They were our enemy when he was a young man, and he takes a great deal of pleasure living in that communist country.
I LMAO at Bourdain’s Beirut, Lebanon show. Mr. tough guy libtard broke down and just about pissed his pants when he got caught up in the latest round of hostilities there and had to be rescued by U.S. Marines (which, to his credit, he was eternally grateful for).
Because of Bourdain’s liberal use of profanity and sexual references in his television show No Reservations, the network has prepended viewer discretion advisories to each segment of each episode. In early seasons, these were a simple screen of white text on a black background, but in more recent seasons, they now include animation that is related in some way to the episode.
Adding to his untamed image, Bourdain is a former user of cocaine, heroin, and LSD. In Kitchen Confidential he writes of his experience in a trendy SoHo restaurant in 1981: “We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in refrigerator at every opportunity to ‘conceptualize.’ Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Cannabis, methaqualone, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, secobarbital, tuinal, amphetamine, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we’d send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get.” In the same book, Bourdain frankly describes his former addiction, including how he once resorted to selling his record collection on the street in order to raise enough money to score drugs.
Bourdain has been known for being an unrepentant drinker and smoker.
Bourdain is also noted for his not-so-subtle put-downs of celebrity chefs such as Emeril Lagasse and Bobby Flay, and Food Network personalities such as Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray (who is the butt of many jokes on No Reservations).
Another of Bourdain’s major concerns is acknowledging and championing the industrious immigrants — often from Latin America — who make up a majority of the chefs and cooks in many U.S. restaurants, including upscale restaurants, regardless of cuisine. Bourdain considers them to be talented chefs and invaluable cooks, underpaid and unrecognized even though they have become the backbone of the U.S. restaurant industry.
“Lots of crazy, bizarre food”
Who’s that fat baldheaded guy who goes to all these, ahem, “developing” nations and eats stuff that would gag a maggot, and proclaims the stuff delicious?;)
I am angry and I am white. What is his point?
He is an alcoholic, chain smoking freak who eats weird things for publicity. BIG freaking deal.
oh yeah, he hates vegetarians... and by extension, i’m sure PETA does not like the way some of the animals are slaughtered on his show.
also, his and andrew’s show are on the travel channel, not the food network.
as for subliminally bashing all things american, i only recall it being mostly on fast food, especially when he’s doing a episode in the US. the odd thing is, i also remember him praising how good the skyline chilli is. that’s some sort of ohio chilli over pasta. yuck.
Bourdain is probably a nice guy outside of his life in the kitchen.
He is not now nor is he known to have ever been any kind of expert on politics ~ but given his Fascistic upbringing he's liable to say just anything. I'd sure never use him as a campaign advisor. Still, laying out a menu for 5,000 people with each ready to plunk down $1000 donations, he'd work for the money ~ you just know the party ID wouldn't matter to him.
Andrew Zimmer (or Zimmern).
We aren’t near as angry as we’re going to be!
I enjoyed his trip to Penang where he visited the night market in Georgetown. He also went to one of two shrimp paste operations ~ one is on North island, the other on South island.
Frankly, I never, ever expected to see those places but thanks to Andrew I don't need to.
I've heard that at times you can smell one or both from every point on the island.
Text of comment follows:
“I am one to those angry white male Tea Party Patriots in whose home the likes of Anthony Bourdain will no longer be welcome!
Just thought you ought to know that.”
Brigade de cuisine. By Escoffier. Dates from the mid/late 1800s. It's traditional kitchen organization. There is but One God, and the Chef is his profit(I meant to spell it like that).
It is a tough, unsustainable system that burns people up and burns people out, but produces amazing results.
The tempo and the adrenaline rush of the kitchen to be similar to the chaos found in war.
That said, Tony needs to STFU and get back to his kitchen.
/johnny
Even though I'm a hard-core conservative, I don't think I'd been too happy with my gov't if I had been stuck in Beirut during the recent war, especially when we were the last ones to evacuate our citizens.
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