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Anthony Bourdain: The Most Awesome Chef Ever

Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Social Entropy++
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So I'm not at all bashful to admit that Anthony Bourdain is a great hero of mine. He's crass, witty, amazingly tolerant, and a great chef.

If you don't know who he is, you have some learning to do!

Anthony Bourdain is:

A Chef, A Writer, A host of two awesome TV shows, and most of all a Chef

He even hates on most of the current Food Network chefs. Which is a plus in my book any day.

And he don't take no one's shit!
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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I actually really enjoyed a couple of shows I saw that featured him. I happened to be flicking through channels and I saw him yelling at what appeared to be a young coworker(?) and I just kept right on watching, it was so great.

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  • PolagoPolago Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Culinary Arts are so amazing and under-appreciated. Such a unique medium when it's approached as such and flavorful regardless. That being said, I need to see more video with Bourdain.

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  • B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    His guest blog on the Food Network stars is spot on. They need to give Mario his own show again and throw Sandra Lee in a woodchipper.

    Mario comes off as a bit of a dick, but he knows his shit and puts together some really good dishes.

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    oh god

    he's so awesome

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  • B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    And this is the part where people post pictures of Nigella Lawson and discuss her fantastic rack.

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    i read Kitchen Confidential

    i haven't seen his show, though

    i don't get the channel

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  • pinenut_canarypinenut_canary Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Yes I saw all the seasons so far and they are great. I need to pick up his book though. I think it will be my choice of reading while on my 15 hour flight.

    Alton Brown is also my hero. But he is not the topic of this thread.

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm going to get 2 or 3 of his books for china,

    And as I read them I will hear his voice in my head.

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Ive gotten really partial to Bobby Flay ever since his new show where he goes out and challanges random people to cook offs.

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Barcardi wrote: »
    Ive gotten really partial to Bobby Flay ever since his new show where he goes out and challanges random people to cook offs.
    He is an ass hole for that show

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Zombies Tossed My Salad! wrote: »
    Barcardi wrote: »
    Ive gotten really partial to Bobby Flay ever since his new show where he goes out and challanges random people to cook offs.
    He is an ass hole for that show

    Thats why i like him. Also he gets his ass handed to him half the time, which is equally as wonderful.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I liked watching Molto Mario but it was annoying how every other dish involved some sort of cephalopod that I could never hope to purchase being where I am.

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  • B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    pinenut_canary wrote: »
    Yes I saw all the seasons so far and they are great. I need to pick up his book though. I think it will be my choice of reading while on my 15 hour flight.

    Alton Brown is also my hero. But he is not the topic of this thread.

    This is SE++ mate.

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  • pinenut_canarypinenut_canary Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Also, every time I watch No Reservations, I want to smoke and drink. Which I do a lot, but it makes me want to do it even more.

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Hey me too. I might just have the show playing on repeat during my 21st birthday party

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    the object of which is to allow every web-fingered geek with a backyard grill--or half-mad muffin maker to proclaim, “I beat Bobby Flay at makin’ barbeque!” at the heart-warming end of show--before returning to tend their meth labs

    And you know it's getting pretty bad when Emeril and Escoffier are appearing in the same sentence and the words 'sucks compared to' do not appear in between.

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    alton brown and anthony bourdain are my favorite chef people
    just so wonderful and dreamy and siiighh

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  • pinenut_canarypinenut_canary Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I want to make an Alton Brown/Anthony Bourdain sig/av now. Maybe I will make two of them of each respective chef and rotate them seasonally.

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Dear lord, who the hell decorates a steak house by suspending 2000 katanas pointy side down above your fucking dining room? What the fuck is wrong with you people.

    http://events.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/dining/reviews/07rest.html

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  • B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I could take the $295 those fuckers spend on the Emperors Flight once and enjoy ribeye all month.

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I recently started watching TV again and I saw Gordon Ramsey telling some fat fucker that he was the person in the world in which he believed the least. It was amazingly entertaining.

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    And apparently this caused some awful hullabaloo when this review came out.

    Really? You're going to bitch about how unfair and cruel the review is while you have the nerve to serve 4oz. of cow for 300 dollars?

    If I'm going to pay out the ass, make me work for it. Like that the Big Texan steakhouse and its 72 oz. in one hour challenge. Even if you lose it's still 1/8 the cost of that shit. And you still got 68 oz. more beef for your money.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Peter Ebel wrote: »
    I recently started watching TV again and I saw Gordon Ramsey telling some fat fucker that he was the person in the world in which he believed the least. It was amazingly entertaining.

    I think that's the hopeless fuckwit that sued him.

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  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Gordon Ramsey is good, but over here he's completely overexposed, he's even doing adverts for phone companies.

    But when he goes off on someone it's always funny.

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  • CorgiCorgi Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    This Andthony Bourdain makes me want to stab Andrew Zimmern in the face with a fat fork covered in Bourdain's vomit after he ate durian.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I do like that Alton Brown is the one person on the Food Network that Bourdain respects.

    In fact, Bourdain even named an award after him "The Alton Brown Award". It goes to the person who, while on the food network, manages to not suck.


    Also, everyone should read Bourdain's books. They're amazingly entertaining.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Gordon Ramsey's ego is actually a pretty realistic size, given that he's a celebrity chef. There was an episode of Kitchen Nightmares recently where Ramsey explained in detail how badly he had fucked up a restaurant he'd opened in '01, in the hopes that the owner of this restaurant wouldn't make the same mistake.

    Sadly, the owner was obscenely rich and delusional and didn't listen and lost buttloads of money.

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  • noluitnoluit Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    I do like that Alton Brown is the one person on the Food Network that Bourdain respects.

    In fact, Bourdain even named an award after him "The Alton Brown Award". It goes to the person who, while on the food network, manages to not suck.


    Also, everyone should read Bourdain's books. They're amazingly entertaining.

    I am intrigued! Any recommendation as to which one to read first?

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  • OdinOwnsYeAllOdinOwnsYeAll Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm not familiar with this guy. You mentioned he is an "amazingly tolerant" chef and I was wondering what exactly you meant by that. Like, amazingly tolerant of super sour or spicy foods? Or of like different skin colors/nationalities/religions?

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  • KajustaKajusta Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    OdinOwnsYeAll wrote: »
    I'm not familiar with this guy. You mentioned he is an "amazingly tolerant" chef and I was wondering what exactly you meant by that. Like, amazingly tolerant of super sour or spicy foods? Or of like different skin colors/nationalities/religions?

    tolerant of the bullshit

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    noluit wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    I do like that Alton Brown is the one person on the Food Network that Bourdain respects.

    In fact, Bourdain even named an award after him "The Alton Brown Award". It goes to the person who, while on the food network, manages to not suck.


    Also, everyone should read Bourdain's books. They're amazingly entertaining.

    I am intrigued! Any recommendation as to which one to read first?

    The Nasty Bits

    then

    Kitchen Confidential

    then

    A Cook's Tour


    There really is no proper order. That isn't the order that they were published in, but it's the order that had me hooked. The Nasty Bits is just a really good read. None of them are too long either.

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  • HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    B.C. wrote: »
    And this is the part where people post pictures of Nigella Lawson and discuss her fantastic rack.
    It's a little early in the morning for that. I prefer to hold off on boners until at least noon.

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  • OdenOden Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    is he like gordon ramsay where he is entertaining to watch but you really dont learn anything or see anything worth replicating in the kitchen?

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  • KajustaKajusta Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZRXHj2hCio

    Awwwww chea.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You don't watch Bourdain for cooking advice. In fact, he doesn't give any.

    You watch it to see a pretty cool guy who goes to some amazing places and gets pretty into their culture.


    Also, if you're ever flipping through the channels and No Reservations is on, it's worth stopping. There was one where he was in Lebanon and ahd to be evac'd. It was a really really well done show.

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  • OdenOden Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    sounds like a boring travel show

    pass

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    If you're not into food or travel, then it isn't your thing...no. Won't lie to you on that one. But if you have an interest in either, it's for you.

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  • OdenOden Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    im into food, but im just being bitter because I dont have access to the food channel any more

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    It's not on the food channel.

    It's on the Travel channel.


    The Food Network refused to show him doing so much drinking and smoking and cursing etc... Travel channel welcomed him with open arms.

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  • HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    It's not on the food channel.

    It's on the Travel channel.


    The Food Network refused to show him doing so much drinking and smoking and cursing etc... Travel channel welcomed him with open arms.
    Ah, and I get the Travel Channel in HD, too. I'm going to have to check this guy out.

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