Anthony Bordain remains the man I want to be when I grow up. He’s a grumpy fellow who gets paid to travel around the world, eat amazing food, and make snarky comments about anything that crosses his mind. I feel like I know Tony and I always enjoy time spend following him around. His latest show is on CNN, an odd choice since they are not known for their great takes on food; but a good one, since they are known for traveling the world. Parts Unknown is pretty much No Reservations. A film crew takes amazing location shots while Anthony…
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Blood, Bone, & Butter
There are times while reading Blood, Bone, & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton that I find myself smiling from the simple pleasure of her prose. A good writer can tell you how she makes pasta. A great writer makes you want to dust the flour off your hands once she has finished telling you how she makes pasta. Gabrielle Hamilton is a great writer. The opening pages of Blood, Bone, & Butter paint an achingly beautiful portrait of an ideal life lived with the perfect family that you know it will go terribly wrong in short order. And when it does go…
Cooking Dirty-Living The Life
If you could put your feet behind your head, you’d be the perfect woman. I can. She said. Want to see? That’s my favorite bit of nonsense from the wonderfully twisted chef bio called Cooking Dirty about one man’s wasted life in food service. Along the way he learns to cook meat, do endless bumps of coke, drink near lethal doses of alcohol, and have to prove that he is a really lousy pastry chef. It’s the book that Anthony Bourdain would have written if he hadn’t pulled so many punches in Kitchen Confidential. Cooking Dirty makes most of Tony’s…
Puffin -It’s Not Just For Breakfast Anymore
This is the single worst thing I have ever put in my mouth-Anthony Bourdain on fermented shark eaten in Iceland. Anthony Bourdain is my favorite celebrity chef. For one thing, he doesn’t have to bother with actually cooking stuff anymore. And his tv shows are not about cooking, they are about traveling the world and eating great food, not so great food, and just plain weird food. I was watching a re-run of the Iceland show on the Travel Channel and here was our hero eating Puffin, fermented shark, and head cheese. Worst meal ever-coming from Tony that has to…