Comments on: Bourdain Throws Down

By: Doug Johnston

Doug Johnston — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:03:41 +0000

Stop being such a pompous ass….you might be an excellent chef but you’re no ones judge.

By: Carl Bethea

Carl Bethea — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:42:55 +0000

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.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:45:09 +0000

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!

By: PhilipE3

PhilipE3 — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:12:27 +0000

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.

By: Shannon's World

Shannon's World — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:57:58 +0000

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.

By: Anna Lucia

Anna Lucia — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:53:21 +0000

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.

By: george

george — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:15:30 +0000

Love your show but thought your comments about Paula Dean were mean-spirited and uncalled for.

By: Thomas Riccardi

Thomas Riccardi — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:45:58 +0000

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.

By: Mari

Mari — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:17:18 +0000

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)

By: Tabbles

Tabbles — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:41:54 +0000

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.