bourdain slams deen and others... verbal food fight...

Bourdain stands on his own merit as a tv personality, and hardcore badass. Emeril IMO has nothing to do with it. If so, he would be coming to the Kentucky center with Bourdain, and not Ripert

I love you but would certainly beg to differ on this...

There wouldn't be a market for Bourdain's work- no Food Network, no Travel Channel spin-off, no book deals, if Emeril wouldn't have reignited the interest in the subject with the bill-paying masses.

No badass, no offal meats, none of it. No reason to fall in love with the personality.

They call it 'the Food Network Revolution,' and until Emeril hit, it was a wash.

Bourdain owes Emeril more than just dinner- he owes him his current career.

You don't find it kinda odd that he slams Food Network Celebs? The old network he was let go from?

EDIT: It seems kinda strange to me that 'No Reservations' now reminds me of an AC/DC album- it all sounds the same...

[Robin Garr]

Am I wasting your time?

I'm sure some will think so, but until Robin says to stop it

Not!

First and most important, drink is an important part of food. It just is.

Second, as you have perceptively noted, the barriers among topics here are thin. Free-flowing information and wide-ranging conversation are good things.

bourdain has made a living off of comments like these. if it were not for his open, brash talk sh*t about anyone attitude he never would be what he is today. I'm just suprised that someone is suprised by this. everyone has schtick, and this is his. big fan, btw.

now for more beer schtick! sergio's tapped a keg of hopslam last night! hopslam in august! i got the first pour and felt kinda like a rock star or foreign dignitary. it was a special moment,lol.

Your right Stephen, I keep forgetting that Emeril was the big personality on FN, I never really liked his show because of his Schtick.... BAM! I thought that was juvenile so I ignored him.

Now give me a bad ass New Yorker like Bourdain and I am all ears, and eyes.

Sorry , I fall on the side that doesn't take Bourdain seriously. I find it arrogant of him to wrap himself in the "health of the nation" flag when he constantly chain- smokes cigarettes. Puhleeez Anthony, you're really concerned about the nation's health? And as far as listening to him about how ANYTHING tastes, well that needs to be taken with a grain of salt. In fact, with the amount of smoking he does you'd need alot of salt before he could taste anything.

In fact, with the amount of smoking he does you'd need alot of salt before he could taste anything.

well, actually, Bourdain quit smoking in 2007.

I liked Paula Deen when she first got started, & she kept to her core, which was country cooking. Now I think she now makes a fool of herself cooking baked salmon with dill sauce, and pesto this, & aioli that. She is about 100 miles from her original position & to me that is embarrassing.

Her Southern bullsh_t shtick also gets almost as old as some of the craft beer shtick on this forum ... too many y'alls etc.

I'll take Deen and her 'y'all's and massive over use of butter over Rachel Ray and her stomach churning, fingernails on a chalkboard, nauseatingly perky 'EVOO!', 'delish!', 'stoup! - its like a stew and a soup!', etc. any day of the week.

I'll bet her husband lurks over her sleeping body at night with a pillow clutched in both hands waiting for her to sleep talk 'EVOO!' so he can justify smothering her. No jury in the world would convict a man who had to listen to that every day...

I liked Paula Deen when she first got started, & she kept to her core, which was country cooking. Now I think she now makes a fool of herself cooking baked salmon with dill sauce, and pesto this, & aioli that. She is about 100 miles from her original position & to me that is embarrassing.

Her Southern bullsh_t shtick also gets almost as old as some of the craft beer shtick on this forum ... too many y'alls etc.

I'll take Deen and her 'y'all's and massive over use of butter over Rachel Ray and her stomach churning, fingernails on a chalkboard, nauseatingly perky 'EVOO!', 'delish!', 'stoup! - its like a stew and a soup!', etc. any day of the week.

I'll bet her husband lurks over her sleeping body at night with a pillow clutched in both hands waiting for her to sleep talk 'EVOO!' so he can justify smothering her. No jury in the world would convict a man who had to listen to that every day...

Wow...I laughed...a lot.

I love Bourdain's writing style - so glad I read "Kitchen Confidential" BEFORE I went to culinary school! I like his adventurous nature and his open-mindedness about exploring different cultural traditions where food is concerned. He's eating eyeballs so that I don't have to! Good for him!

My favorite Paula Deen story comes courtesy of my brother, who, from a distance, saw a cardboard cutout of her in whichever store it is that carries her cookware (Target, K-Mart, wherever). His first thought was, "Why in the world would anyone buy Phyllis Diller cookware? She's always made a running joke about how she can't cook!" True story.

Stolen from a commenter on another forum in regards to Anthony Bourdain:
"He makes me want to be a better asshole!"

Excuse the profanity, but that (to me at least) is part of the humor of the statement.

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well, actually, Bourdain quit smoking in 2007.

I guess that's about right.It's been at least that long since I bothered to watch his show.

I liked Paula Deen when she first got started, & she kept to her core, which was country cooking. Now I think she now makes a fool of herself cooking baked salmon with dill sauce, and pesto this, & aioli that. She is about 100 miles from her original position & to me that is embarrassing.

Her Southern bullsh_t shtick also gets almost as old as some of the craft beer shtick on this forum ... too many y'alls etc.

I'll take Deen and her 'y'all's and massive over use of butter over Rachel Ray and her stomach churning, fingernails on a chalkboard, nauseatingly perky 'EVOO!', 'delish!', 'stoup! - its like a stew and a soup!', etc. any day of the week.

I'll bet her husband lurks over her sleeping body at night with a pillow clutched in both hands waiting for her to sleep talk 'EVOO!' so he can justify smothering her. No jury in the world would convict a man who had to listen to that every day...

LOL! I never liked her perkiness, either...

Deb

I've never understood the appeal or affection for Paula Dean. You put enough butter, heavy cream and cheese into it and you can make a dog turd taste good. The commercial she did for her buffet with the giant pile of butter was to me the shining beacon of everything wrong with what she does. It's not hard to make food that is really tasty and really bad for you. It's hard to make food that is really tasty and really good for you.

How can people defend her out one wide of their mouth and slam fast food out the other? Hear recipes are typically worse for you than a Supersized Combo meal from McD's.

I'm with Anthony on that one. Definitely.

Stolen from a commenter on another forum in regards to Anthony Bourdain:
"He makes me want to be a better asshole!"

Excuse the profanity, but that (to me at least) is part of the humor of the statement.

lmfao!! +1