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Anthony Bourdain—What the Media Eulogies Left Out
townhall.com ^ | 6/16/2018 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 06/16/2018 8:07:41 AM PDT by rktman

In brief, Antony Bourdain wore his “anti-corporate hipness” on his shirtsleeve, always smirking and snarking that “evil corporations” and “crass commercialism” repelled him.

But he gleefully signed on as a shameless tourism agent for the Castro-Family-and-Military Crony-Crime Syndicate, a thieving, murdering criminal-corporate empire that makes the Mafia look like Boy Scouts of America.

“I will never eat in his (Donald Trump’s) restaurant. I have utter contempt for him, utter and complete contempt… I’m not going. I’m not going.” (Anthony Bourdain, Eater.)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anthonybourdain; arkancide; bourdain; clintonbodycount; cuba; leftwing; newyork; partsunknown; suicidal
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To: Kickass Conservative

“I’m Italian and I am embarrassed by the Cuomo Family.
I had more respect for the Gotti Family.”

I’m not Italian but am also embarrassed by the Cuomos...that they are Americans.


61 posted on 06/16/2018 9:51:53 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

My grandmother & her family were all from Marietta! 5 of my aunts, uncles, & cousins graduated from Marietta College. It’s where I met my husband ; ) During college I worked at a restaurant on the river & during the riverboat fest it was insane! My friends & I used to lazily tube down the river......memories.


62 posted on 06/16/2018 9:52:49 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

We used to walk across the bridge over to Williams town, WV to a little Italian place.


63 posted on 06/16/2018 9:55:01 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: ealgeone

Because he was famous


64 posted on 06/16/2018 9:58:53 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: rktman

The funny thing is that US airlines are cutting back on their flights to Cuba that they obtained after Obama reestablished diplomatic relations. Many airlines are downsizing from mainline to regional jets, and some are cancelling routes entirely.


65 posted on 06/16/2018 10:00:41 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

True lol, another irony of life...


66 posted on 06/16/2018 10:03:13 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Plus one

Though he did aggravate me cause he didn’t treat every backwater with such respect

My home state for example


67 posted on 06/16/2018 10:04:09 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Wonderful show.

Thanks for sharing.


68 posted on 06/16/2018 10:04:41 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: wardaddy

Never watched his show.


69 posted on 06/16/2018 10:08:21 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: rktman

I always loved “No Reservations”. Especially the one where Bourdain went to Ted Nugents ranch and shot a full auto rifle. And every episode with his crazy Russian friend Zamir.


70 posted on 06/16/2018 10:09:33 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

For all his faults and weakness.. Bourdain was a better representative of America than Obama.

I am so ashamed of Obama.


71 posted on 06/16/2018 10:15:00 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Bonemaker
At the very beginning of Anthony Bourdain's West Virginia show he had a special message for New York liberals. To paraphrase him, it was something like this: "And if you don't like these people and their culture, I have a message for you: screw you!".
 

72 posted on 06/16/2018 10:19:08 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Vaquero; miss marmelstein

What we call Italian food here and what you get from Lugano to Messina are two different things

We inherited Italian family dinner food that has evolved in the land of plenty

I like both

Seafood in Portofino or fried whole sardines in Palermo with dunking bread or Roma thin bubbly pizza or Tuscan meats and veggies

Best Italian food here is probably mamas kitchen as y’all said

I’ve had good Italian in Brooklyn and I used to like Luna when I lived in the city

But I telll ya I’ve had great Italian in The Hill St Louis. Serious Italian enclave

Of course the north end Boston

And New Orleans which once was the largest Sicilian community in America does ok
Creole stuffed eggplant at Mandinas and lots of little Italian joints plus Domenica at the Roosevelt

High end Italian is another topic and is good too but not cheap

Factory Kitchen which serves that Italian in the bums warehouse section of Los Angeles is incredible

I’m eating there next week


73 posted on 06/16/2018 10:23:40 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: Huaynero

It was a joke.

They do the same stuff to trump.

It’s NY snark, they have snark in Tx too, some folks just don’t get the joke.

Not sure why bourdain killed himself, but I found him immensely entertaining for a NYC liberal.

Not nearly as insufferable as most of them.


74 posted on 06/16/2018 10:29:19 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ealgeone

Because millions of people know who he was.


75 posted on 06/16/2018 10:30:14 AM PDT by all the best
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To: wardaddy

I think you can find good Italian or Italian American food all over the country now. I had an excellent ragout in Alabama last month. And I just ate at a northern Italian called Sandro’s on the Upper East Side a week ago and it was fantastic. Just an in-house made ravioli in a thick cheese sauce - to die for.

My husband is Sicilian-American so I no longer dare to cook Italian at home. I’m lucky that way.


76 posted on 06/16/2018 10:32:57 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Technically is Sicily, Italy? Corsica? Local opinions may vary.

Not sure what La Maddelena is at all... :)


77 posted on 06/16/2018 10:42:45 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

As of today (and maybe since Garibaldi’s time, I’m not sure) Sicily has been part of Italy. Beautiful isle!


78 posted on 06/16/2018 10:47:41 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Dey got their own lingo there LOL

Kind of a whole different groove thang from Rome


79 posted on 06/16/2018 10:49:51 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: miss marmelstein

Riding a ferry from a submarine anchorage in la Maddalena to Palou was barf inducing LOL.

the ride in the mini cooper on dirt roads to Rome was a hoot.

I liked Bourdains shows, heck I disagree with just about every one on some level.

The guy had a gift and squandered it, Sad.


80 posted on 06/16/2018 10:56:30 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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