(2) Paula Deen is not just a liberal - she is a hardcore leftist. Bourdain, who is a typical old-school NY liberal Democrat type - looks conservative compared to that lunatic. I say lunatic because she is crazy - she didn't leave her house for 20 years and she blames it on Reagan. She has described Jimmy Carter as a wonderful president. She makes Hilary Clinton seem rational.
(3) Her food is garbage. I ate at her Savannah restaurant, and it was maybe one cut above Old Country Buffet. The very next day I had fried chicken with homemade pepper sauce and biscuits at a diner outside of Jonesboro and it was ten times better and 75% cheaper than Lady And Sons.
(4) Real cooks don't shill for cheap packaged presliced ham on TV. If it's down home cooking it should be from home. Plus, on those lousy commercials she pushes anti-American propaganda along with subpar ham - her cockamamie story about how the white settlers didn't know how to smoke meat until the Indians taught them how. Are people really stupid enough to believe that nonsense?
(5) Bourdain is obviously soft on illegal immigration - but the point he's trying to make is that plenty of celebrity chefs on TV (including Paula Deen) never set foot inside the kitchens of their famous restaurants - that if you go to one of these places and have a fabulous $1000 meal, it was probably cooked by some guy from Honduras getting paid $10 an hour. Bourdain prides himself on the fact that when he was the chef at Les Halles he cooked meals for customers there every day as a line chef. And he should be proud of that.
Where did you get the “I say lunatic because she is crazy - she didn’t leave her house for 20 years and she blames it on Reagan” from. I have never seen anything that said that. Her Agoraphobia ended in ‘86 so she would have been home bound in about ‘66.