Anthony Bourdain HAITI

[cheezydemon3]

WOW. I like this show anyways, Bourdaine is that kind of jerky, slightly douchey guy who doesn't give a damn if you like him or not, so you can't help but like him. He doesn't pull punches.

His show normally travels to cool places and finds the uncool spots where the locals eat but tourists wouldn't go near.

He went to Haiti when it was decidedly uncool. Check out the video of him buying out a local street vendors rice and chicken and distributing it to a starving crowd. Ever see starving people stand quietly in line waiting their turn? Me neither. Brought tears to my eyes.


http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Anthony_Bourdain/Episodes_Travel_Guides/Haiti

AWESOME show.

The Cooking channel (not the channel Bourdain is on) has won me away from the food network. I guess I like the more gritty, realism of Bourdain and the cooking channel, as opposed to the polished look that the food network has taken on. (although "diners drive ins and dives still rocks")

 

[EoinMag]

Bourdaine is great, he's the punk rocker of the kitchen.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Retired punk rocker.

 

[HexKrak]

Such a generous idea. What a sad reality.

I watch No Reservations as soon as it hits netflix, and is one of the most tempting arguments for a cable subscription and dvr.

 

[bierhaus15]

I like watching the show, some of the most beautiful cinematography and food on tv, but Bourdain pisses me off with his constant unrelated social commentary. It seems every time he's looking at something profound or inherent to a group people, he makes some wise crack about paris hilton or his past drug use. Like some poor person's existence or food has anything to do with him snorting coke... That and he takes a millennium of history and condenses it into to some uneducated, ignorant sound byte. It seems the more the guy travels around the world, the more he becomes an 'all knowing' ******.

The Haiti show was pretty good though!

 

[JJL]

I haven't seen the Haiti episode, but I like Bourdain. He's a great story teller.

 

[EoinMag]

Like some poor person's existence or food has anything to do with him snorting coke...

You've not been paying attention, he was smoking crack :rockin::rockin::rockin::rockin::rockin::rockin:

 

[smizak]

IMO, I think he's become more humble and insightful as the show has gotten older. The first season he was an all-out *********, but I can watch him without wincing or clenching my fists now.

It's weird, being a former kitchen lackey and reading Kitchen Confidential to see him on TV still

 

[bourgeoisbee]

I felt the last season he/the show was getting tired, but the Haiti episode was back on track. I'm looking forward to the rest of this season. I met Tony at an event and liked him more in person than in the show when he recycles some of the lines/bits others are complaining about.

 

[cheezydemon3]

I like the open minded (allbeit cynical) trained Gourmet's take on the food he sees, as compared to emeril's self obsessed prattle, or Guy Fieri's practical but hardly gourmet appraisals of food.

I also have to guiltlily appreciating the NOT SAFE FOR KIDS disclaimer before a cooking show!

 

[SkinnyShamrock]

One of my co-workers raves about his show, and got one of his books for Christmas and won't stop talking about it. Some of the recipes do look damned good.

He also has an article about him in the latest Time magazine. I'll have to read that.

 

[cheezydemon3]

He is an unsure mix of Hippy/green and cynical smoker, go phuck yourself if you don't like me, rich *******.

You can't help but like him.

 

[cheezydemon3]

He is an unsure mix of Hippy/green and cynical smoker, go phuck yourself if you don't like me, rich *******.

You can't help but like him.

And I think his culinary opinions are very valid.

(yes I quoted myself, is that HBT masturbation?)