The Anthony Bourdain thread

The Cadillac thing so utterly dickish.

Kind of assuming the contract for The Layover episodes was a little better so there won't be any post-production interference

i never dug the layover. but last season and what i've seen from season 9 (well, i've only seen the brooklyn episode) was pretty great: penang, lisbon, mozambique. even if he goes on to a career of $175/ticket speaking tours and even if the cnn show sux... for all its flaws, no reservations was beautifully shot and anthony bourdain is a compelling, likeable non-dickish host and this will go down as the best travel show ever put on television.

Anthony Bourdain Is Not Selling Out, Even if The Taste Is a Little Cheesy

The Layover a superior show in its brevity and hijinks to latter-day No Reservations

― mh, Monday, December 3, 2012 11:50 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

Taste aired last night. Do we/should we have a thread for this show? It's equal parts terrible and good

The Taste (show) is terrible.

Bourdain is a complete hypocrite: more tie-ins/plugs per episode for shitty mayo than in a year of Paula Dean shows.
Nigella is boring. Malarkey is an annoying twat. Ludo reminds me of http://www.completewermosguide.com/Black/Black_NienNunb.JPG

None of the chefs are particularly talented, interesting nor compelling.

Masterchef is a far better show imho.

yeah the auditions were better than the show proper which suuuuuucks

i accept that my original assessment was rong

yup. decent auditions, bad show.

whoever decided to put Malarkey in this show deserves chlamydia.
but yeah I was done after one competition episode. It's just so pointless and stupid.

Erm

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/dating-advice/the-sexiest-thing-you-can-do-on-a-date

I don't have a problem with most of the article in theory...at least until the list of sexy foods

But the whole thing gives off a weird vibe, like getting sex advice from a teacher or something. It's like, note to Cosmo: I don't think I want to hear from AB on this topic?

when are Cosmo sex columns ever NOT creepy

exactly

The 6 secret moves guaranteed to BLOW his MIND

STICK A FINGER IN HIS ASS

6. "Use the back of a brush to swat his thighs when he steps out of the shower — wet skin is more sensitive."
7. "As you’re riding him, clamp down on his earlobes with your fingers, and pull on them to rock yourself forward and backward."
^^^^ guaranteed boner killers courtesy of Cosmo

like getting sex advice from a teacher or something

from a.... sex teacher

NO

Anthony Bourdain must be terrible in bed, right? Overly concerned with looking cool and he'd stop mid-thrust to talk about meeting Dee Dee Ramone when both were strung out.

stoooooooooooooooop it

uh have you seen his wife it's pretty clear who's in charge there

mid-Lingus "Oh, that's delicious. This is the best thing I've eaten since those street tacos in Mexico City."

._.

LOL @ "mid-lingus."

mid-lingus ah um

first time I read it I was like 'mingus what now OH nvm'

Gretchen:fetch::me:lingus

mid-aer lingus

fakey 360 mid-aer lingus

I saw PLG pull a sick fakey 360 mid-aer lingus on the Dew Tour.

loool

Last couple episodes of the CNN show are pretty good. Congo episode gets heavy with Conrad schtick, but I think I learned more about the country from it than any other source. It's a middle-age cool version of National Geographic.

The Mississippi Delta ep was pretty good, even if more than half of it didn't take place in the Delta.

The recent Nerdist podcast was a pretty solid interview, esp the last 30 min. He gets past his normal schtick and actually has a conversation.

The Nerdist podcast with him is great. Questions are boneheaded, but Bourdain is great when he gets wound up and passionate. Worth a listen.

despite the title this is not as much about working for Bourdain as it is about making a go of it in the big city. livin' the dream

http://thebillfold.com/2014/06/from-recipe-tester-to-anthony-bourdains-assistant/?src=longreads

Bourdain interviewed as season 4 starts up

http://www.fastcompany.com/3036090/innovation-agents/anthony-bourdain-has-become-the-future-of-cable-news-and-he-couldnt-care-l#1

Watching first season of his latest series on netflix, it's really good!!

This show is now 70% martial arts zzzzzzz

???????

they show my store twice in anthony's bleak heroin in greenfield episode of anthony bourdain: parts unknown.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/575420_10154452983342137_3199001036946694970_n.jpg?oh=7ff5e35a1197d50d6de9f352906e1636&oe=570D085E

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/12510473_10154452953107137_4708955855004843874_n.jpg?oh=83e5e0bb0ae53d9cd8db0f73ea245cca&oe=5748A4D6

season 4 episode 8. i watched it on netflix today.

it's the one next to All About You.

i think its ep 7, scott - ep 8 is jamaica

watched this after you mentioned it on fb. great episode, really loved his reminiscences of his days in the beach town - though when you see him hang out with the fishermen (like other similar moments in the series) you see that his tough exterior is mostly a bluff, and he knows he's really a media piker among dudes who, you know, are proper ornery types.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-dines-anthony-bourdain-vietnam

http://i.somethingawful.com/u/elpintogrande/2016/partsunknown.jpg

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/cyberpunk-anthony-bourdain/

Goddamn that Houston episode was beautiful. Gave me a little hope for America, but also brought me to tears multiple times.

http://www.eater.com/2016/12/21/14038332/anthony-bourdain-election-trump-interview

This is the thing that shocks me. All of these guys [working with Trump], they’re like the cast of — they were the bad guys in Animal House, all grown up! Every frat movie, every meathead movie, Porky’s, Meatballs, the jocks versus the nerds, the jocks versus the hippies, any dystopian thriller, every film America’s ever done. These are clearly the bad guys!

This isn't massively insightful I guess but I definitely feel this way too.

RIP