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You might already know this is you've clicked on any of the No Reservations ads on our site, but I just found out myself that Anthony Bourdain has a new blog. It's over at the Travel Channel site.
Bourdain has kept blogs before. He's been writing about Top Chef and has entries at other food blogs once in a while, but if I'm not mistaken this is the first permanent blog that he's had. Hopefully he'll keep it up even after the season of No Reservations is over. If the first few entries are any indication, it might be fun.
From January 11:
It's possible to hurt my feelings. For instance:
I admit I'm genuinely annoyed by the occasional internet poster who suggests that whatever I might have to say about food, about travel--about anything--is somehow gravely diminished by the fact that I'm no longer working in a professional kitchen. That proximity to the line, the actual job of cooking dinner for the public enhances one's powers of perception, focuses the mind and builds vocabulary and that "keeping it real" necessitates dying behind the stove, a broken, broken kneed and broke-ass geezer in his mid-fifties, long past it as a cook - finally succumbed to stroke or liver disease. It's a point of view popular among internet nerds and cubicle geeks who've never done a minute's physical labor in their lives, the same people who take photographs of every course at their favorite restaurants, convinced that it's Jean Georges himself in there, personally boning out their squab.
My instinctive reaction to this kind of inverse snobbery is normally a raised middle finger and a "I had twenty-eight years of standing behind a stove - while you were arguing over bundt cake recipes in a chat room, motherfucker! Now, kiss my ass!!"
But the fact is, there's a little voice in my head that completely agrees with their point of view.
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1-14-2008 @1:30PM chaosotter said... Surprise, surprise: he's mostly surly and spends most of his time swearing, alluding to gross experiences, and showing everyone his enormous peacock tail, without saying much of anything useful about food. Shocked, I am.
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1-14-2008 @5:26PM tony said... You should mention that the post from Bourdain that you are quoting above, is only a portion of his entry. In fact, there is a lot more to his entry. And, unless you actually click over to his Travel Channel page, one would have no idea. You should at least note that there is more to his post on his blog. This is somewhat misleading.
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1-14-2008 @6:22PM jmr said... ...just like the typical chef.
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1-14-2008 @6:26PM Lewis said... Your title scared me! Yes, he's had this blog for a while. I thought he actually got a NEWER blog...whew.
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