[Harley]

I thought Obama was the 'most dangerous person to America' but this food fight is interesting. There's potential for a lot of blow back from chefs all around.

[pogo101]

Bourdain obviously has a lot of free time on his formerly drug-stained fingers. :/

[mnehring]

Paula Deen’s food makes my heart hurt looking at it. I’m going to have to go with Tony on this one. Deen seems to have a schtick where she just tries to make everything as fatty and nasty as possible. It is almost like that old joke on the Simpsons where they started a restaurant that deep fried everything including the salads. Her stuff makes Scottish fried food look healthy.

At least Tony isn’t calling for a nanny state regulation over her food. He has been pretty outspoken against the food Nazis in New York.

[freedumb2003]

I saw bordain as a judge on Top Chef. He is an arrogant, self-absorbed SOB.

He probably just made these statements because he thinks he should be head of the Cooking channel.

[mnehring]

Versus

I know where my money is.

[Keith in Iowa]

Same topic: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2766024/posts

[Biggirl]

Well the guy forgets that what she cooks is based on what is cooked in the American south.

[Keith in Iowa]

Tony is Howard Stern with knife skills and culinary training... or, Gordon Ramsey with NY/Jersey accent instead of British.

[boop]

Hah! I read that interview in TV guide. He said some nasty things about Sandra Lee once, then met her later in person. He says "You don't mess with her!" I'd love to hear the details about that.

BTW, I disagree about Paula Deen. If you ate her stuff every day you'd be as big as a house. But it looks delicious to me. As Julia Child once said: "I'm always in favor of butter."

[SamAdams76]

Isn't this the guy that did those Motel 6 radio commercials? The ones that ended with "We'll leave the lights on for you?"

Anyway, the Motel 6 brings back pleasant memories for me from the early 1980s when I did not have a lot of money and so on vacation, I'd be looking for a Motel 6 sign where I know they would have a reasonably clean room for a decent price. One time, the manager yelled at me because I took too much ice from the ice machine - I was using it to fill the bathtub so I could keep my beer cold.

[Don Corleone]

If I have learned anything in my rather long life it is that it is very unwise to pi$$ off a southern “Lady”. Very unwise!

[Fred]

Now these two lasses no how to cook, they do the fishing and the hunting and have some of the best game meat recipes.

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/two-fat-ladies/index.html

[erod]

I used to love Paula Dean, wow look at that fat southern woman cook jeez that's a heart stopper. But when she went on air with Michelle Obama, I stopped watching. FYI I love southern women.

[Gena Bukin]

America would save untold billions in social security and pensions if more people ate Paula Deen’s cooking. I mean, c’mon! Every kitchen needs a commercial-grade deep fryer!

[bboop]

So — I don’t cook like Paula Deen, either, but I don’t begrudge her her choice of recipes. What’s with the putrid attack? The guy’s way off base here.

[ken5050]

This is just a publicity stunt...guaranteed they’ll kis and make up, and he’ll appear on her show..and maybe they’ll face off on Iron Chef..with the secret ingredient...BUTTER

[GunRunner]

Proof that in America, people will get nasty and argue about anything, no matter how irrelevant and inconsequential.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I like the locales he goes to and can tolerate his show...but that boy is one big asshole. That’s right, I typed ‘asshole’. It fits.

[free me]

Whenever I see this guy he is talking about what idiots,morons Americans are.

So now I make sure never to see him.

[Sons of Union Vets]

Paula Dean was on Fox and Friends this morning and I was laughing so hard I could hardly breathe when Paula, with the greatest of good humor - and in her famous Southern drawl responded to Bourdain's outrageous comments, saying,

" I don't know if it was a publicity thing or if someone had just peed in his cereal bowl that morning and he was mad......."

Priceless!

[jonrick46]

Anthony Bourdain has obviously jumped aboard the Food Police wagon and has defined the phrase: "jumped the shark." Paula Deen breaks all of their picky rules by cooking traditional food the way Mom cooks. These uppity yahoos don't want that. They want all that loving goodness in a plate replaced with the government approved swill.

Bourdain makes a living with a show called Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. It is a travel show that examines the foods of native cultures in locations around the world. In that show you rarely see him get his pants in a wad about the food he ate. Bourdain's comments completely contradict what he presented on his show. There was no holds barred in the ingrediants and they were the best food he ever ate. The food had to be good because the recipes came down from generations of cooks; all with high calories from fats and sugars, and all from generations of cooking perfection. The foods you saw on the show were from the Paula Deens of the world, bringing another generation into the Garden of Eden of gastronomical goodness.

Could Anthony Bourdain be experiencing a more dangerous bout of depression than what a trip to Paula Deen's dining room table could ever bring?