[cripplecreek]

I like Bourdain’s show too but he’s rather pretentious. The show I like most is the bald guy who eats weird stuff.

[Goldsborough]

The relative “greatness” of Bourdain is that he is fully aware that his current gig demands his self-caricature, and he more or less cheerfully does that. It is the captured moments of when he is being sincere and genuine that are what really makes his show the best of its genre.

[mountn man]

What would be great, would be to actually see a show about travel on the Travel Channel and not about food. Put Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern and Adam Richman on Food Network.

All day or night its all Bourdain or its Man vs. Food or its Bizzare Foods.

Maybe something bizzare would to actually do shows about travel. Like Samantha Browns shows.

I used to like Rachel Ray but her in your face personality ALL the time has got tiring. She used to seem like somebody from the neighborhood. Now she seems like Oprah light (or is that Oprah white).

Now Giada is easy on the eyes.

Paula would be fun to meet. Guy Fieri would be fun to meet also. His show actually makes me want to check these places out.

[ConservativeStatement]

The Bourdain episode with Ted Nugent was a blast. Bourdain mentioned his politics were opposite of Nugent but he (Bourdain) also poked fun of his liberal friends and praised Nugent in multiple ways.

[Clemenza]

Bourdain rocks, despite his ego. Been eating at Les Halles (in New York and Miami) on a few occassions and he seems to be the only person (even though he no longer oversees the kitchen) to get "French casual" right.

Alton Brown is just plain annoying.

[eartrumpet]

Andrew Zimmern makes his funny comments off the cuff while he is eating the horrible foods. Bourdain doesn’t have the talent so he has a writer come up with something pithy then overdubs it later. Plus I heard Bourdain in an interview back during the last presidency and he was just another Bush-hating robot.

[philled]

His book Kitchen Confidential is a pretty good read.