Anthony Bourdain ditches 'No Reservations' for new CNN show

Boston Metro ^ | May 29, 2012 | CASSANDRA GARRISON

[dennisw]

Tony B gave up smoking due to his wife Octavia who does jiujitsu and likes watching mixed martial arts check out the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsY17M5k0jI

Tony did OK with Octavia

[Tax-chick]

His shows are interesting, to this suburban shut-in, because of the exotic locations ... but he’s a grouch. I even read his book, in the spirit of fair-mindedness, and he was a grouch there, too.

Informative international visiting, though. I liked the episode where he and a pack of Sicilians got drunk, roasted dead animals, and fired rifles at random. It reminded me of my relatives in Missouri.

[AU72]

He seemed enjoy his visit to Ted Nugent’s ranch shooting off high powered weapons.

[patriot08]

I can’t stand that foul mouthed loser.

[ConservativeStatement]

I enjoyed the episode with Ted Nugent. A show from Austria was interesting. But his personality can be grating.

[Tax-chick]

I like the really weird locations, like Azerbaijan, or wherever it was that he went with the drunk Russian guy.

Ted Nugent was in an episode of “Miami Vice” that Der Prinz and I watched last night. My goodness, we’re all 30 years older than we were back then ...

[funfan]

The only food show I like is cupcake wars-although I really just like plain cupcakes but it is fun to watch!

[CatherineofAragon]

Agreed. There’s an element of sleaze about Bourdain that’s actually creepy.

[MtBaldy]

Stopped watching him long ago. If he could just talk about food I could stand him but he never misses an opportunity to interject his sophomoric, half baked, liberal ideology into his shows. He’ll be right at home at CNN and I still won’t watch him.

[ConservativeStatement]

Ted Nugent’s “Little Miss Dangerous” was the featured song in a Miami Vice episode, too. The one where the crazy babe almost burned Rico.

[MarkL]

He seems like a complete a$$hat, but his Kansas City show was quite good, and it included some of the better, but lesser known BBQ restaurants (including my favorite, a real BBQ joint called "LC's"), and a KC treasure, "Town Topic."

Mark

[patriot08]

Sleaze...yes.

[skinkinthegrass]

hey folks... he can't be all bad, he hates Vegans, too.
he likes meat.. steak.. real animal protein/despises Vegetables...

[Liberty Valance]

I’m a Bourdain fan. So shoot me. But not before we get to try the local fare ... and a good beer.

[Liberty Valance]

[Ezekiel]

He's a foul-mouthed curmudgeon alright, but better an unvarnished elitist crank than the photoshopped plastic creatures who can't keep their fake smiles and smarmy mugs out of the magazine racks or half the products in the average kitchenware department.

There was a time a few years ago when a certain celebrity chef's face seemed to be plastered onto every cracker box in the grocery store. My kids even noticed that there was no escape from the ubiquitous troll, because the displays would be all over the stores. I explained to them that it was a case of extreme overexposure of a spokesperson, such that 1) consumers would get sick of her rancid smile, and 2) it showed that she was willing to promote all sorts of garbage without any sense of discriminating taste or values, thereby establishing her credibility as less than Zero.

:)

I've noticed a lot of her junk kitchenware piled up on the clearance shelves.

[skinkinthegrass]

"But not before we get to try the local fare ... and a good beer."same here.. he blasts everyone equally..
he's an anti-establishment/PeTA restaurateur
hint: the show's name...no reservations
..he loves his steak med-rare..goose-liver..
sweet little pheasants.. dares PeTA to stop him.

[wardaddy]

What u said...i mean lets toss Sir Winston while we’re at it

I prefer smokers as a rule....less pretention...my dear wife on my homepage...i wish she would quit for health but other than that i dig it...its her and i adore her.....mini skirt...heels and a martini and ciggie...one could do worse raising 5 kids

Tats...im done with....enuff is enuff....specially on chicks

Ink should be earned.....ex cons...navy....one percenters

And i have a half sleeve....earned btw

[Chgogal]

He couldn’t stand the competition from Andrew Zimmern. Tony seems a bit full of himself. Seems like a good match.

[dennisw]

“He seemed enjoy his visit to Ted Nugent’s ranch shooting off high powered weapons.”

I saw that show. #1 he gets his kicks doing it. #2 It gives him conservative credibility so he does it. He has gone shooting in Vietnam and a few other places