[SJSAMPLE]

Bordain went the Czechoslovaia and helped PEASANTS make sausages by hand, cook them immediately and sit around in a backyard drinking beer and eating them by hand. Most of his shows don’t involve actual chefs, just locals and local cooking.

He can be a prick, though.

[Trajan88]

I'm reading Bordain's book Medium Raw now... about 1/2 way through. Beginning of book he talks about first working for Food Network and how he himself "sold-out" ... the writing could use some editing (it tends to ramble on too long in some instance), but I like it.

Regarding his show "No Reservations" - if you get a chance, try to watch the episode where he comes down here to Texas and spends time with Terrible Teddy Nugent... they fire off all kinds of weapons.

By the way, Bordain's wife Octavia is cool (believe she's Sardinian).

[mojito]

Bourdain can be amusing at times, and a jerk at others, and at others an amusing jerk.

I still think my favorite episode had him going shooting with Ted Nugent on Ted's Texas ranch. To Tony's credit, he seemed to enjoy the heavy artillery.