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BrutulTM said:
Alton interviewed her on his short-lived podcast and she admitted that she didn't do well in culinary school and has no knife skills. I think it was more about being on TV for her than it was about food but the show was not the worst thing out there and it had her on it and she usually had those boobs out front and center which is worth at least a couple of stars.
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Yeah she was definitely a TV personality. It's not that she didn't have some okay recipes, but it wasn't anything ever mind blowing. I mean she comes from a massive Hollywood background. I think it's a grandfather Dino de Laurentiis who produced Conan the barbarian, one of the greatest movies of all time, and he did a bunch of stuff for John milius.

I don't know the whole story of how she got involved in doing food shows, but she had her connections and the boobs to go with it. Obviously she made her way using every available asset possible.

I would still stick my sopressata between those buns. Well, with me being for my German background, I guess it would be my bratwurst.
 
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Loved Bourdain on a cook's tour but the more I saw of him, he seemed so fake and phony, like a politician that has fake accents based on who they're talking to. I saw one episode where he went to sizzler in koreatown with some ko-am chef and talked about how it was a symbol of americana and childhood memories. If he were in NY and went with a white friend he'd probably say sizzler is embodiment of what is wrong with american corporate food culture. Maybe I'm being too sensitive but it felt like he was saying "oh... poor immigrants can go to sizzler this is fat white people food you can try, but my white friends will never step foot in this place." He sounded very condescending.

When he was on CNN promoting his korean episode, the dish he chose to make was "army stew" which originated from koreans dumpster diving american military base after the korean war. I think he chose it just to feed SPAM to anderson cooper and see his reaction. I'm not a big K-Pride guy, but that was insulting. There are people who lived during that era that won't eat it and don't even consider it korean food.
It's like him promoting filipino food by making
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Giving credit to him for "willing to try any food in any culture" is a pretty low bar. If he really did kill himself, what a selfish piece of shit. If there is an episode where he gives some profound insight into humanity, I'll watch it with an open mind. I thought he was like a cool punk rock chef/foodie when I was in my 20s and I think it's all fake now that im in my 40s.

I'm ready for the negs, didn't think I'd be writing a drunk rant on bourdain, lol.
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i'm staying 4blocks from that sizzler next month, but fucking hell i ain't going to no sizzler when i'm in koreatown
 
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Bourdain was a "tortured intellectual". AKA bipolar.

His story is kinda sad, but he was also too arrogant to really accept help. He didn't need to seek it, people saw it and tried to offer it. And he was just kind of a pompous prick who happened to be well spoken.
 
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Nabi said:
Loved Bourdain on a cook's tour but the more I saw of him, he seemed so fake and phony, like a politician that has fake accents based on who they're talking to. I saw one episode where he went to sizzler in koreatown with some ko-am chef and talked about how it was a symbol of americana and childhood memories. If he were in NY and went with a white friend he'd probably say sizzler is embodiment of what is wrong with american corporate food culture. Maybe I'm being too sensitive but it felt like he was saying "oh... poor immigrants can go to sizzler this is fat white people food you can try, but my white friends will never step foot in this place." He sounded very condescending.

When he was on CNN promoting his korean episode, the dish he chose to make was "army stew" which originated from koreans dumpster diving american military base after the korean war. I think he chose it just to feed SPAM to anderson cooper and see his reaction. I'm not a big K-Pride guy, but that was insulting. There are people who lived during that era that won't eat it and don't even consider it korean food.
It's like him promoting filipino food by making
en.wikipedia.org

Pagpag - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Giving credit to him for "willing to try any food in any culture" is a pretty low bar. If he really did kill himself, what a selfish piece of shit. If there is an episode where he gives some profound insight into humanity, I'll watch it with an open mind. I thought he was like a cool punk rock chef/foodie when I was in my 20s and I think it's all fake now that im in my 40s.

I'm ready for the negs, didn't think I'd be writing a drunk rant on bourdain, lol.
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No way I will neg you for that. You’re not wrong, but he did suffer clinical depression. It’s a real thing.
 
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Nabi said:
One tip I heard once was to over-season your food if it's something you can fix easily like a soup. I tend to under-season my food and over seasoning from time to time helps me tell when I'm getting close to making something too salty.

Shit, there are a lot of celeb chef dick riders in here. How yall feel about Anthony Bourdain?
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That's why you taste every step of the way when you're making something, then you can dial it in. That's also acceptable to leave it in a gray zone where you can tell the people eating your food hey you might want to add a little bit of salt and pepper to your own preference.

Depends upon the dish.
 
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i'm staying 4blocks from that sizzler next month, but fucking hell i ain't going to no sizzler when i'm in koreatown
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Is LA koreatown still koreatown? the chicago koreatown is mostly legumer/curry town and all the korean stores are spread out in the burbs
 
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No way I will neg you for that. You’re not wrong, but he did suffer clinical depression. It’s a real thing.
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I love you in SS, bro, but i'd understand if he was some 27yo genius music artist that was misunderstood. He was 61 with a bunch of people that cared about him. Shit, I'm just staying alive for 1 person right now.
 
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Nabi said:
Loved Bourdain on a cook's tour but the more I saw of him, he seemed so fake and phony, like a politician that has fake accents based on who they're talking to. I saw one episode where he went to sizzler in koreatown with some ko-am chef and talked about how it was a symbol of americana and childhood memories. If he were in NY and went with a white friend he'd probably say sizzler is embodiment of what is wrong with american corporate food culture. Maybe I'm being too sensitive but it felt like he was saying "oh... poor immigrants can go to sizzler this is fat white people food you can try, but my white friends will never step foot in this place." He sounded very condescending.

When he was on CNN promoting his korean episode, the dish he chose to make was "army stew" which originated from koreans dumpster diving american military base after the korean war. I think he chose it just to feed SPAM to anderson cooper and see his reaction. I'm not a big K-Pride guy, but that was insulting. There are people who lived during that era that won't eat it and don't even consider it korean food.
It's like him promoting filipino food by making
en.wikipedia.org

Pagpag - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Giving credit to him for "willing to try any food in any culture" is a pretty low bar. If he really did kill himself, what a selfish piece of shit. If there is an episode where he gives some profound insight into humanity, I'll watch it with an open mind. I thought he was like a cool punk rock chef/foodie when I was in my 20s and I think it's all fake now that im in my 40s.

I'm ready for the negs, didn't think I'd be writing a drunk rant on bourdain, lol.
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I had a buddy back in college, a drinking buddy who I worked with, and we would head back to one of our places. End up firing up a grill, and cooking something at midnight, and then turn it on TV, and a lot of the times a Cooks tour was on. I remember watching Anthony Bourdain back then, and specifically remember the episode he ate a cobra heart. We were pretty drunk and eating hamburgers or something.

How does remember enjoying watching the original shows, and I watched the handful of his other series with my wife over the years that I think we're on Netflix. I just can't stand it when it starts talking about stupid cultural BS and deviates from food and recipes, which it's what crushed A Chef's Table after the first season. I still will rewatch The Francis Mallman episode, and my wife has bought me two of his books. The dudes a badass, much more than Bourdain.

I don't think he was ever an amazing chef, but he was a cult of personality. He wrote a bunch of books and did his whole food documentary style gig, and then the Israelis killed him...😉
 
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lurkingdirk said:
No way I will neg you for that. You’re not wrong, but he did suffer clinical depression. It’s a real thing.
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Bourdain was manic AND depressive. He was bipolar and highly intelligent which is... a deadly combination and also something that makes almost everyone around you hate you... cuz youre probably a prick who they cant really argue with.
 
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lurkingdirk said:
No way I will neg you for that. You’re not wrong, but he did suffer clinical depression. It’s a real thing.
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I mean wasn't he a heroin addict or something at one point, or maybe it was coke or crack? I know he struggled with serious drug addiction, but any episode you ever saw of whatever show he was doing he was getting loaded on booze.

I mean whatever to each his own. I don't think he was actually that great of a chef but he appreciated food unlike a lot of people, and he was excellent at being able to tell a story about how said food was made if that makes sense.
 
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Nabi said:
Is LA koreatown still koreatown? the chicago koreatown is mostly legumer/curry town and all the korean stores are spread out in the burbs
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beats me, last time i stayed my hotel was next to the triple shopping centers, 1 was lively in that there was a kpop band performing and doing pictures/signings at the end and the other shopping center it was where the olds were hanging out in the food ct cuz it has a nice view
 
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Dr.Retarded said:
I mean wasn't he a heroin addict or something at one point, or maybe it was coke or crack? I know he struggled with serious drug addiction, but any episode you ever saw of whatever show he was doing he was getting loaded on booze.

I mean whatever to each his own. I don't think he was actually that great of a chef but he appreciated food unlike a lot of people, and he was excellent at being able to tell a story about how said food was made if that makes sense.
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He was an Argento addict, that's way more destructive than heroin or coke.
 
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Nabi said:
I think he chose it just to feed SPAM to anderson cooper and see his reaction.
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I know nothing about any of those other words, but this sounds like a fantastic reason to do something. (I really hope he actually pulled it out of a military dumpster too!)
 
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Dr.Retarded said:
I don't know what that is. Can you enlighten me? For some reason I keep thinking Sargento like the cheese brand. Was he freebasing parmesan?
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Asia Argento. Batshit crazy Italian broad, like on a crazy scale of 1-10 she's a 73. Her cheating on him was most likely what tipped him over the edge into suicide but being in a relationship with her was probably one of the biggest factors towards him being suicidal in the first place.
 
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