Anthony Bourdain? Troll? I can't believe it.

Great idea. Bourdain's awesome!

I love how Bourdain's show is generally not about haute cuisine. (Though it's sometimes featured on there.) He loves street food, as do I. I like seeing that kind of thing much more than hoity-toity crap.

The man loves a good bowl of pho, which means he's alright in my book.

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Pure WIN!

Same with AB's plan here. Fiendishly simple and wonderfully effective.

shivashakti: Great idea. Bourdain's awesome!

I love how Bourdain's show is generally not about haute cuisine. (Though it's sometimes featured on there.) He loves street food, as do I. I like seeing that kind of thing much more than hoity-toity crap.

The man loves a good bowl of pho, which means he's alright in my book.

I think a lot of people would be surprised to find that even the more famous/accomplished chefs enjoy street food as much as, well, every other normal human being. Hell, the entire first issue of David Chang's Lucky Peach magazine (new window) is dedicated to ramen shops... and every bit of it sounds gloriously delicious.

DjangoStonereaver: THE LAYOVER has its moments, but it seems to be largely an infomercial for
various trendy eateries and hotels in the episode's subject city (something that
afflicted the last couple of seasons of NO RESERVATIONS, either).

I much prefer "Snarky and Insightful Traveller" Tony to "Shilling Foodie" Tony,
but I will give him his due: he only seems to shill for friends or for stuff he
sincerely likes.

My cable doesn't have The Travel Channel, so I haven't seen the most recent No Reservations seasons or The Layover. But NR was getting a bit stale last I saw it.

I dig Bourdain. I dig his writing and his show, but it seems he and his crew are running out of good ideas.

sweetmelissa31: Screw Anthony Bourdain. Ghost Adventures is the best show on the Travel Channel.

RexTalionis: What about the Globe Trekker hosts? Ian Wright's alright.

Is that really the same thing? That's a travel show. Bourdain may be on the Travel Channel, but he's mostly a food show. Or food AND travel.

Mugato: Why is "foodies" a word?

Because at some point in the past, self-important hipsters and yuppies started going to restaurants to enjoy food, and while at that restaurant started blogging on their smart phones about how great X dish was and OMG! here's a picture. People now read those blog posts and go to the restaurant, also taking pictures of their meals and posting it to facebook/google +/NarrassticblogsRus. like they are meeting some kind of celebrity.

So instead of being a normal human being and going to a restaurant, having your meal, leaving, and then telling people you know it was good. These people need to feed their narcissism, thus a new group of people were born, and they were named foodies.

cameroncrazy1984: I definitely love his saying that if you want to learn about a place's culture, just find the market and wander around. Its 100% true.

Also, pho is delicious.


Exactly... Though it's hard to do that here in America where so many food markets have been replaced with soulless supermarkets full of fake food.

Mugato: Why is "foodies" a word?

Because "self-important asshat who actually knows nothing about food" was too long?

Fidels is the best mexican food in San Diego

Gig103: NewportBarGuy: Olive Garden is the finest Italian restaurant on earth. Hands down.

You have to be more subtle for this trolling trick to work.

How about: "You know, I've been to a lot of Italian restaurants in my time, but I really think Olive Garden serves up the most authentic Italian food anywhere. It's definitely worth the typical

Mugato: Why is "foodies" a word?

Because epicurean is too hard to spell and doesn't play well in blogs.

Tor_Eckman: Gig103: NewportBarGuy: Olive Garden is the finest Italian restaurant on earth. Hands down.

You have to be more subtle for this trolling trick to work.

How about: "You know, I've been to a lot of Italian restaurants in my time, but I really think Olive Garden serves up the most authentic Italian food anywhere. It's definitely worth the typical less than 2 hr wait, and their bread sticks are simply to die for!"

FTFM

Don't use the less than sign in your posts, dummy.

NewportBarGuy: Olive Garden is the finest Italian restaurant on earth. Hands down.

Well done.

Almost 40 posts and BelugaJoe hasn't come in to tell us that Bourdain isn't a chef?

Ever had the fajitas at Applebees?

To die for.

Thread needs more Megan from Globe Trekker



Is she even on the show any more?

There is no better taste in the world then taking a great scotch and mixing it with Mountain Dew.

RexTalionis: shivashakti: RexTalionis: What about the Globe Trekker hosts? Ian Wright's alright.

Is that really the same thing? That's a travel show. Bourdain may be on the Travel Channel, but he's mostly a food show. Or food AND travel.

I think Bourdain's shows are more of a travelogue framed by food as a device. But, seriously, it's a travel show with ruminations on the people, culture, etc.

They might as well talk about eating real food instead of trying to find stuff about it on the Giant Cake Competition Channel.

/Food Network, another victim of channel drift/network decay

shivashakti: Great idea. Bourdain's awesome!

I love how Bourdain's show is generally not about haute cuisine. (Though it's sometimes featured on there.) He loves street food, as do I. I like seeing that kind of thing much more than hoity-toity crap.

The man loves a good bowl of pho, which means he's alright in my book.

I heard that the best way to find a good (cheap) restaurant in a city is to see where the cops eat. On the road - see where the truckers eat.

/Works if you assume good == fried.
//which it does

GranoblasticMan: I think a lot of people would be surprised to find that even the more famous/accomplished chefs enjoy street food as much as, well, every other normal human being. Hell, the entire first issue of David Chang's Lucky Peach magazine (new window) is dedicated to ramen shops... and every bit of it sounds gloriously delicious.

The only thing about his street food love is that he glosses over the fact that the average traveler is probably going to suffer some gastro issues going with the street food route, unless they are with a good guide who can make sure they go to a place that is ok for the out of towner. the more casual traveller is going to end up like Carl in Idiot Abroad if they just start eating from the first random cart they find.

rillettes: Almost 40 posts and BelugaJoe hasn't come in to tell us that Bourdain isn't a chef?

I'm honestly surprised how many Bourdain "haters" exist. I mean, it's one thing if you don't agree with his politics (which he will find a way to work into almost every episode of NR), or don't like his cynicism (which I imagine precludes one from ever using the internet, if that's the case), but otherwise he's INCREDIBLY honest about his fortunes, willingly downplays his "talents as a chef" (he was never a food innovator, simply one who later in his career settled into recreating French classics), and acknowledges the hypocritical line he walks by bashing the existence of telegenic, "celebrity" chefs/cooking shows while in his own way being one himself. His persona in any interview or speaking engagement he gives is "I'm not sure how I got here, or if I even belong here in the first place, but I might as well make the most of it".