The Anthony Bourdain thread

recent naples episode was awesome

I dunno, I heard the Haiti episode wasn't that good. Bourdain got in a taxi and the guy didn't even really speak English or French and they ended up in fucking Rosemont.

i liked the el bulli send off episode.

I didn't like the naples episode. :/

I liked the Cuba episode, as well as the El Bulli episode. Made me want to go spend a paycheck (or more) on dinner. I had leftovers instead, and am able to pay my mortgage. Yay!

Recent Bourdain quotes:
http://eater.com/archives/2011/08/29/anthony-bourdain-on-leonard-lopate-the-ten-best-quotes.php

http://eater.com/archives/2011/08/30/bourdain-louisiana.php

I liked the Louisiana episode--humor and music (cajun group Red Stick Ramblers were playing fiddles and singing when not cooking)too. Yep, the killing of the pig was pretty graphic. David Simon (Wire, Treme) was there.

that party looked like lots of fun imo- wkiw

He has a new show - The Layover, I think it's called? Seems like a less-prepped 24-48 hour visit to a city where they just try to throw together a show.

josh homme desert episode was kind of horrible. they should have shown the mountains of cocaine they went through instead.

Finally got around to watching the Kurdistan episode. Very interesting.

Anthony Bourdain and Jerry Stahl . . . separated at birth?

http://www.citylights.com/html/WYSIWYGfiles/image/jerry_l.jpg

I like when Bourdain hangs out with Josh Homme in Palm Springs.

On Alice Waters: "She's not a particularly good spokes model for her cause. She comes from an area rich in delicious things. She's comfortable, she has very elitist tastes that she has a very had time concealing. Actually, that's the part of Alice Waters I like. Her love of Provence and the Mediterranean sensibility is both charming and not helpful."

kinda liking the No Reservation reboot The Layover

I keep meaning to watch it

Anthony Bourdain already said it best: “When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you’ve been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you’ve got type 2 diabetes… It’s in bad taste if nothing else.”

(w/r/t Paula Deen)

I'm finding the Layover a lot more enjoyable than the average No Res episode. Thought SF in particular was way better

NYC, Rome and Montreal have been my favourite eps so far. Haven't seen San Fran or London yet though.

He definitely seems more into it. More drinking, less eating things he doesn't appear to love and saying "oh, that's good. yep, that's good."

he seemed drunk out of his mind in sf.. seemed like a pretty representative trip to me.

the beginning of this thread makes no sense

the layover is kind of like a focused run at a place instead of the "let's drive around and pontificate upon the deep history of this land from my american perspective" which I was really getting tired of.

he seemed drunk out of his mind in sf.. seemed like a pretty representative trip to me.

― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:43 PM (2 hours ago)

tony does seem to get way more trashed in these shows.

SF was beyond any point I remember seeing him on camera before, though! He was like your embarrassing drunk friend who has to talk to everyone and comment loudly about how great things are when they made it to the late night diner.

What was funny was that apparently Danny from Mission Chinese didn't really know him and kept giving him looks like, 'Dude, you're fucked up,' as he escorted him around. It looked like a fairly good visit for him but I kind of preferred it when he didn't go to the right places before.

he gets very grinny & smiley when he's drunk (don't we all haha)

the layover is kind of like a focused run at a place instead of the "let's drive around and pontificate upon the deep history of this land from my american perspective" which I was really getting tired of.

― mh, Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:07 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

any time he would visit a communist or former communist country his inner milquetoast liberal would emerge and irritate the shit out of me with his constant handwringing - apparently all the capitalist dystopias in africa and se asia that he visits don't have regimes worth commenting on

The Cambodia one was pretty good in that regard...? Maybe the exception that proves the rule though

Don't remember handwringing in Vietnam either, but the No Res episodes kind of blur together

Yeah I'm havimg trouble remembering specific eps

He's been to Vietnam a couple times, iirc

where's his parade?

He had plenty of unkind things to say about Liberia's history. He was in Thailand during conflict and seemed to try his best to describe what was going on. Same with both times he was in Beirut. When he was in Macau he talked shit about how materialistic the culture was while freely admitting to enjoying his time there immensely. Same with Miami, really.

No Reservations is done. Bourdain moves to CNN.

It's official: Anthony Bourdain is leaving the Travel Channel behind and is headed to CNN. It's the end of No Reservations, the Emmy award-winning series that has run for eight seasons (the premiere was July 25, 2005). Bourdain tweeted that the production company Zero Point Zero will come along for the ride: "Moving with same ZPZ crew over to CNN to do another world travel show. Congo? Libya? Finally?"

It was confirmed from ZPZ that the current season of No Reservations on Travel Channel will be its last; currently the second season of The Layover is in production and will air on the Travel Channel. Reached for comment, Bourdain tells Eater: "Same production team, same amazing crew, same me--but the world just got a whole lot bigger."

According to a press release from CNN, the yet unnamed show will premiere in early 2013 and is "slated to air domestically on Sundays in prime time." The new show will "be shot on location and examine cultures from around the world through their food and dining and travel rituals." Bourdain also will "offer commentary on other CNN programs and platforms, domestically and internationally, providing insights into current events and debates around food and health and other cultural conversations." CNN is scrambling: With April 2012 ratings the lowest in years, the network is trying a more international approach to news.

The relationship between the trouble-making Bourdain and Travel Channel's parent Scripps (which also owns the Food Network) has always been a delicate dance. Even back in 2009 when Scripps aquired Travel Channel, Eater National ran with the headline "Will Bourdain Actually Jump Ship From the Travel Channel?" Now it's finally happened.

Interview with Bourdain and Ottavia (didn't know that she was a Brazilian jiu jitsu fighter).

I like this part...

Anthony Bourdain: Very early on, shortly after we met, I remember Ottavia saying, 'I know a very good Hungarian butcher shop, and they have wonderful tripe goulash', and I remember thinking, "Wow, you've been in this country maybe five or six years. How would this woman know this?' I'd been living here forever and had no clue that such a thing even existed. I just thought it was amazing that A) She liked tripe goulash, and B) knew where to find it. I thought it was just so awesome.

Interviewer to Anthony Bourdain: Did you ever think that as a kid growing up in the New York City and New Jersey areas, that you would ever be where you are today?

Anthony Bourdain: Twelve years ago, at 44, I was standing next to a deep fryer with no hope and no expectations. I would never have dared to dream that life would turn out as it has.

inspirational

wow re Ottavia's eating habits

"It's like a wolf's lair. I am just constantly throwing meat in her direction" is some funny shit.

http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2012/10/anthony-bourdain-roast.html

Some good lines here, also could be xposted to worst sounding sushi roll at guy fieri's southern bbq & california style sushi restaurant tex wasabi's

goddamn I would kill my grandmother for video of that

Ted Allen might be kinda funny?!

can't wait to watch it and see fieri be unfunny

very very shocked

Ted Allen is vicious, always knew he had it in him

that Bourdain line about Chopped being cheap as hell is so true

I think he wears his sunglasses backwards so people get confused and don’t punch him in the face.

I lol'd

Ted Allen is p funny

The 'Pretentious Foodie Bullshit' sketch he did for the Onion is worth seeing
http://www.ifc.com/onn/videos/onion-news-network-celebrity-chef-ted-allen-cooks-his-favorite-pretentious-foodie-bullshit-meal

Gilbert Gottfried sure knows his way around a fat joke

the bedsheet over the ocean was good

Hilarious. Looks like Batali also took a serious beating. And making fun of Fieri is like taking candy from a baby