Bourdain Throws Down
"I actually WATCH Food Network now and again, more often than not drawn in by the progressive horrors on screen. I find myself riveted by its awfulness, like watching a multi-car accident in slow motion … " More via Ruhlman’s blog »
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Tony,
I love your show!
When you went to Hawaii, I hope you went to Lanai, Kauai, and Maui. Not just Oahu.
When you come to San Francisco, you can stay at my house in Alamo if you want.
Nellie
Tony,
You are an idiot. I was your biggest fan until that horrid talk show where you and a bunch of other burnouts tried to talk about food like you were solving the worlds problems. What were you thinking? The whole reason you had any appeal at all is because you knew what you were:a cook. You brought dignity to the clan. Now you are a clown. I know I will be right because that format will probably take off and you will be the next Lagasse, Dispirito, or Rachael Ray. Or it will bomb, and thankfully save your reputation before you screw it up anymore.
Tony,
You are the man. I think the person above me must be either A. mentally retarded, or B. A hater. Someone who inspires people to get out and experience new culture is not a clown. There’s no better way to start learning about a culture than to sit down and eat what they eat. It’s the fuckin’ best way to show respect because it shows the people you are trying to give a shit about the things they give a shit about. I don’t think people really give a fuck about whatever you did on Food channel. Keep on pimpin’.
Hi Tony…
Thank you for your great impressions and experience on your journeys. You are a kind of role model. Since your tv-journeys I changend my working life and now i´am responsible for many countries all over the world. Stay tuned…
Milan from Liechtenstein/EU
Hi Thony you are the best and very sexy for my wife. You must wisit Poland, Silesia – the best “karbinadle z kartoflami i marchewką z groszkiem”. This is the beeeeest.
michał
TONY I LIKE YOUR PROGRAM IAM MEXICANO PLEASE COME TO MEXICO PLEASE IM FROM GUANAJUATO
hay tony, com to brunei and stay in my house, forget those other offers! regolado has stoned a black spitting cobra in the driveway and we can dig it up, shood be redy by nw, and bbq it. also can get macaque monkey from back fence, fresh, is easy with slingshot, nice with satay of pied hornbill. we have kalamazoo bbq from usa, can cook, bake and sail to labuan island on it also. we can climb bamboo for shitty bids nest in caves, only 30 minut across border and make soup. your show only reason worth having astro tv. hate that tv guy who masticates camera and eats for a dare. also do not like sugar cooks who hang titties in whipped cream (but understand if you like them). do enjoy your show would happily shout you a tiger from a chipped coffee mug hidden under the table (brunei is dry). my kids and partner all enjoy your show and it keeps us in touch with some real world values while in expat land. love your production values, you must have a great crew.
Tony
Yours is the only food related show I watch-ITS GREAT–Your comments are interesting and truthfull you make me laugh {not easy}–Look i am married to a Thai girl- i helped her family from sleeping on dirt,sick and hungry to self stataining -I have a nice Toyota vego 4 door with dvd-3 tvs–all the stuff to make driving around south asia nice–3 new motorbikes-2 honda 1 yamaha–a place in pattaya and one in khon khen—if you ever want a road trip let me know—
barry hughes
One of the last original badasses, definitely. May your glass/bowl stay full, your tunes loud and your friends close, thanks a million.
Salutations from Canada. Drop a line may you find yourself in our godless frozen Northlands.
who the hell did the sound dubbing on the Washington D.C. show,, the background music was so loud it was no longer in the background, it was in the foreground and I had trouble trying to hear Anthony talking about anything…
Turn down the damm music so I can hear the interesting dialoge.
Hey Tony, welcome back to the Scripps Networks family. Guess you will have to get over yourself or find another network.
Tony, always loved your show but lately you seem to have to interject politics more and more.If your looking for a thumbs up from alan colmes or jenean garafalo, well done.But I don’t like your politics and don’t want to hear them because true to your liberalness you like to talk unsolicited crap about people,no balls to do it in person I guess.Keep your show about food and I’ll watch.Otherwise fk you.
Hey Tony,
Just read your book “Medium Raw”. So far I have really enjoyed it. I especially like the piece on hamburgers. Especially “designer burgers”. I like Bobbly Flay but I went to his burger joint in Monmouth County, N.J. and I couldn’t believe he was charging 7.95 for a “small black angus burger”. I can point out half a dozen great burger places in the area that serve a better burger and you get fries along with it too! I don’t know how his place is doing but you won’t find me there because I can’t see paying for these “fancy burgers” when you can get a good one somewhere.
My name is Aryle (ariel)I am 12 going in to &th grade i love food and cooking i want your job what do i need to do to get it
– Aryle
Hi, I´m from Mexico City.
I´m sure that I could be a great hostes if you come to make a show in Mexico, here are grat places to eat, not only big and expensive restorants tah cold be good, here are small and traditional places for breakfast, dinner and more, the best is to eat in a market, some mole, “pancita”, or “cochinita pibil”, quedadillas, migas, of course great pleaces for tacos and we have great sea food dishes like “agua chile”, here are traditioanl food but also there are a great mix and fusione cuisine you slould coem I will be happy to show you where to eat.
I loved your Laos Show. I was in tears during parts of it. I never realized that we destroyed that country. And I am an old lady who should have been aware of that.
Tony,
I have read your books and I only PRAY that at least ONE Culinary Student will listen to you.
I wanted to do the Euro thing in the 70′s, but I fell in love and married. 13 years later I was divorced. Crap I stood in kitchens just as you explained and the same old shit. Customer wants a well done Filet and over cooked Salmon.
Well I may have 10 years left of life, and looking back it has been an Absolutely Wonderful life. I have a Son and a Daughter who are doing well themselves.
I wonder where I may have been today if I did what you suggest and what I dreamed of doing in the 70′s.
I like you a lot. Your quips and language is very humorous. Your books are an easy and delightful read. You are not a sell out no matter what the retard says. I always say when a person or persons win and hit the lottery “GOD BLESS THEM”. I also say this to anyone who was and still is in our business weather a cook, Chef, busboy or dishwasher – if they make it out of the steaming hot F%#king kitchen I say “GOD BLESS THEM” but for you Tony it is God Bless You. You tell it like we need to hear it.
THANKS VERY MUCH
Salvatore’ J. Riccobono -
INN AT THE RIDGE.COM
I WILL HAVE MY 83 YEAR OLD AS CLOSE AS I CAN GET HIM AT THE SHUBERT IN NEW HAVEN. HE IS AN OLD SCHOOL PORTUGESE MAN THAT THINKS U ARE COOL BUT HE IS COOL LIKE U. TELL ME ON FACEBOOK HOW MUCH IT WOULD OF 2 MINUTES FOR U TO MEET HIM. IT WOULD MAKE HIS WORLD AND U HE MIGHT SLIP U A GOOD CHORIZO RECEIPETHAT U DONT KNOW ABOUT. THANKS FOR COMING TO NEW HAVEN. PLEAS RESPOND TO ME ON FACEBOOK LORNA SOUZA. I HOPE HE HAS THAT 2 MINUTES.
Mr. Bourdain, I’m hooked; can’t get enough of your show. Enjoyed your trip to Korea, Russia Singapore and Maine. Love Nari, you should have her more often. She brings life to your show! I get this feeling that one of these days they’re going to wheel you out of your show for drinking too much! We want to see more of your show so control yourself a little bit. Take care and God bless always.
Hello Anthony,
I love your show! I watched everyone of your episodes and I noticed that you need to visit Poland. I’ve noticed all around the world they sell Polish sausage why not go to its origin, and try a real Polish sausage. They have great blood sausage called kiszka. They also have amazing spicy tripe soup called flaki. Poland has great food, history, and excitement. Not to mention they have some of the best beer! I also hear that vodka is sold in six pack of cans to drink straight up. You should try the famous spyritus vodka thats so strong one shot will knock you out!
I love your show! I watched everyone of your episodes and I noticed that you need to visit Poland. I’ve noticed all around the world they sell Polish sausage why not go to its origin, and try a real Polish sausage. They have great blood sausage called kiszka. They also have amazing spicy tripe soup called flaki. Poland has great food, history, and excitement. Not to mention they have some of the best beer! I also hear that vodka is sold in six pack of cans to drink straight up. You should try the famous spyritus vodka thats so strong one shot will knock you out!
Enough with the blood sausage! We get it, you love it. I watch your show because I like learning about food, other places and cultures and because along with Zimmern your show floats on top like flotsam amongst a lot of awful shows about ghosts and premeditated gorging that to complete the analogy, are derelict. (cargo that sits on the bottom of the ocean that can never be reclaimed)
I thought your new series was going to be better but we just can’t seem to get away from that blood sausage. I have nothing against bs, after all tripe was a normal thing for me as a kid but the redundancy sure makes for boring TV.
Cent’una and may you never get gout!
You have to come to Poland.
What an asshole you are. Paula Dean is a sweet lady with a kind heart. You left wing socialist pigs are just a bunch of lowlife dicks who have no class.
Nice how you think it is necessary to put people down like Paula Dean. Does that make you a big man? I am through watching anything you are on, Your comments were uncalled for and in my opinion makes you look like the little man you are. A real man would apologise and ask for forgiveness. Off to tell the travel channel they are off my viewing list until you are gone.
I never post on this kind of forum, but I just read the controversy surrounding the Food Network remarks (Deen in particular) and it inspired one of the best conversations I have had with my husband in several weeks. We are both from working class backgrounds (blood pudding, head cheese, offal sort of folks, in other words). My husband was a line cook and sous chef and I waited tables for several years before we both earned English degrees. We are very conscious about the food we eat, including the corporations that control the “chefs” on Food Network. I think that Chef Bourdain was totally right in his assessment of the situation on Food Network. Corporate sponsors, quirky personalities, and perky boobs do not a meal make…. I’d rather go back in time and eat my grandmother’s pig brains.
Anthony, I love your show! Please keep your sense of humor and your mind open. It is an awful shame that you are a world famous, well traveled, intelligent and funny guy, but you haven’t learned that bashing others doesn’t make you look good. (Other chefs, cooks, etc.) It is not cool. I’m not saying don’t share your opinion, just put a filter on. Nobody is force feeding the nation Paula Deen’s food. Take the high road and you will never have regrets. Do you want to be “the Kathy Griffin” chef? It’s the line between sarcasm and vitriol.
I love your sense of humor AND your politics (fkyu back “John” on May 24th, 2010 8:42 pm, you’re a douche and probably voted both times for Bush).
Never wrote a “fan” post before, but thought you needed some advice. Unsolicited, of course. ;c)
I gotta say that I agree with you 100% on your stance with the food network shows. Paula Deen looks out at her audience of 300 lb devotees with a glazed look in her eyes deep frying, pan frying and just frying things in grease, oil or whatever sludge she can collect. Her food isn’t healthy not for her, her fans or America.
As for the rest of the cooks they are just souless people who are in it for the almighty dollar. Hell my roommate went to Tex Wasabi out here in Sacramento and he said by and far it was the WORST food he had EVER had in his life.
Anyway, love your show and I loved that you went and visited my old stomping grounds.. Staten Island and you went to Jade Island (which is a pretty damn good bar and restaurant). Don’t worry about what those house frau’s are going to say about you tony.. just know that you have fans that love you and if you need some one to break a few heads.. give me a call.
Love your show but thought your comments about Paula Dean were mean-spirited and uncalled for.
Greetings Anthony,
I tend to agree about your assessment regarding certain chefs on the Food Network channel. They are far what I enjoy either to cook or eat, or even their over the top personalities, but by the same token, there is something there for everyone. I prefer novel and exotic things, but also a well cooked good quality ingredients as this is how i grew up. Wholesome, simple, and good quality, but i think to take away certain shows because they are not up to par with your own personal tastes does not seem fair either.
It is pretty amusing for some people to judge those who watch Paula Deen as fat and all whole host of other neg. comments. Don’t like it, don’t watch it.
As for those who poke fun in a mean way at others:
Here is a little insight for you..your crass attitude is much more repulsive than a very large person. I assess people on what is coming out of their mouths, not the foods they are putting their gullets.
Kindly get over your faux snobbiness..truly classy and open minded people do not lower themselves to petty remarks about people’s looks.
The pig video was just discusting.You and some other ignorant people doing that on national T.V.How sad thinking it’s entertaining and fun.When in fact it’s not at all.Paula Dean,Rachal Ray and the other cooks you belittle would not go there as an entertainment tool.I’ll never watch your show again of that video and your attitude makes us all go Vegan!You and those other people make me sick to my stomach.I invite all the other animal lovers to comment.We don’t need to see that kind of sick harsh cold reality on T.V EVER again.*Your unfan of your show.*
-Shannon.P.S I celebrate to never watch your show again.Everyone raise your glass and toast to that one.
Anthony,
I enjoy your show and have been to every place you have been (usually before your show, but sometimes in having to go back taken (“side trips to follow your steps”). I did have a question of why you do not feel Hong Kong instead of Singapore is the largest infusion of food & culture mixes?
Keep up your repore with Andrew. It works.
Love the show Tony. I’ve been catching myself watching the youtube archives of A Cook’s Tour. I do have one gripe… many of your “fans” posting on this website are either sniveling bedwetters or just plain idiots. Keep writing!
I was a fan for a long time until I saw your rant about fat people and airplanes on one episode. I don’t understand why you can be so hard on people that have that as a problem when you have the same issues with excessive drinking and smoking. Paula Deen does not expect anyone to eat her kind of recipes on a daily basis and even refers to the Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding as a one severing per lifetime dish. Yes over weight people have issues and part of that is due to our FDA holding out on approving Stevia for years to protect the artificial sweeteners corporate dollars while also allowing corn sugars to invade everything in the market. Yes fat people are an issue but showing that while traveling the best thing to do is get drunk and smoke over and over does not promote a healthy life either. Glass houses and stones.
Stop being such a pompous ass….you might be an excellent chef but you’re no ones judge.