Bourdain obviously has a lot of free time on his formerly drug-stained fingers. :/
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.
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.
Versus
I know where my money is.
Well the guy forgets that what she cooks is based on what is cooked in the American south.
Tony is Howard Stern with knife skills and culinary training... or, Gordon Ramsey with NY/Jersey accent instead of British.
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."
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
Proof that in America, people will get nasty and argue about anything, no matter how irrelevant and inconsequential.
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.
Whenever I see this guy he is talking about what idiots,morons Americans are.
So now I make sure never to see him.
" 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!
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?