Anthony Bourdain is killing it

**Benny Profane** · 05-27-2015, 07:55 AM

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...ing-his-empire

**peck257** · 05-27-2015, 09:41 AM

his books are pretty good too....plenty of stories not fit for tv

**Tippster** · 08-17-2015, 09:26 PM

"Parts Unknown" is just stupid good TV.

Fuck me but this past season was amazing. Every episode I watch is at the time the best I've seen. Madagaskar, Seoul, Scotland... etc. Just an incredible marriage of shooting, writing, and editing. I would give a limb to be in the evening post mortem/pre-production sessions when the next day's shoot is discussed.

I shit you not - this show is at the Acme of what I do for a living. Few match it that I've seen. Frontline is one, eg.

**MakersTeleMark** · 08-17-2015, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by Tippster

"Parts Unknown" is just stupid good TV.

Fuck me but this past season was amazing. Every episode I watch is at the time the best I've seen. Madagaskar, Seoul, Scotland... etc. Just an incredible marriage of shooting, writing, and editing. I would give a limb to be in the evening post mortem/pre-production sessions when the next day's shoot is discussed.

I shit you not - this show is at the Acme of what I do for a living. Few match it that I've seen. Frontline is one, eg.

This. For many reasons.

**Benny Profane** · 09-07-2015, 08:53 PM

I gotta go to Tokyo someday. But I'll never see it like he did.

**BmillsSkier** · 09-09-2015, 10:54 PM

Really looking forward to the Charleston SC episode on tap this season for many reasons... Bill Murray as his sidekick being one of them.

The stories of Bill dropping into random restaurant/bar parties and doing Bill Murray shit in Charleston/IOP/Sullivans Is. are true. Your friends won't believe you.

**Benny Profane** · 10-11-2015, 06:02 PM

I like that thing that Zach did at the end of the Cuba segment. Just drove along the beach promenade thing with a high speed camera pointed out the window of a car, pointed directly right. Awesome.

**Benny Profane** · 10-11-2015, 06:05 PM

"I like a bidet. I like warm water jets of water spraying up my ass. Who doesn't?"

**snoqpass** · 10-11-2015, 07:08 PM

Okinawan Bullfighting

**Benny Profane** · 09-27-2016, 04:40 AM

Hanoi. Fantastic, and, of course, pulled off a surprise guest very well.
Great photography. One of the best shows on TV.

**Benny Profane** · 10-23-2016, 08:12 PM

His visit to London and the English countryside was great, and, the show's highlight is a lunch with Ralph Steadman and a visit to his studio watching him work. Ralph, in case you kiddies don't know, became famous here in America doing the illustrations for the original Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in Rolling Stone.

**Game Over** · 10-23-2016, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

His visit to London and the English countryside was great, and, the show's highlight is a lunch with Ralph Steadman and a visit to his studio watching him work. Ralph, in case you kiddies don't know, became famous here in America doing the illustrations for the original Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in Rolling Stone.

Yea I love how he (Ralph) basically just threw paint down and made something great out of it.

**mprinst** · 11-10-2016, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by fool

His (non-fiction) books are out of this world good. Kitchen Confidential and Medium Raw. Amazing. Especially the intro to Medium Raw.

Kitchen Confidential is definitely one I would recommend. Made me realize how crazy the restaurant industry is

**nutmegchoi** · 11-10-2016, 10:24 PM

My friend's kid's school in Upper West Side had a charity auction.
One of the items was dining with Anthony Bourdain at a Korean BBQ restaurant.
I think the silent auction ended around $90,000.
Hope he dinner was included?

I always enjoy to watch him visiting Tokyo.
Japan has such varieties for cuisine.

**ZeniMan** · 01-10-2017, 01:32 PM

If you're going to NOLA watch the Layover NOLA, takes notes, and trust his judgement.

**Groomer Gambler** · 01-29-2017, 09:26 AM

I just picked up his new cookbook. I haven't made anything from it yet but the side stories alone are a great read

**XXX-er** · 01-29-2017, 11:47 AM

http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/a...tics-1.3957079

short interview ^^ where buddy sez he would not sit down and eat with Trump

**nutmegchoi** · 01-29-2017, 02:53 PM

Like him even more now.

**Benny Profane** · 02-11-2017, 06:50 PM

Great stuff.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...moveable-feast

**Benny Profane** · 05-06-2017, 09:55 PM

L.A., where there's awesome Mexican food, and Bourdain tries to figure out why Chicanos like Morrisey so much.

**babybear** · 05-07-2017, 08:23 PM

new episode tonight on san sebastian/ basque region- aahhh take me there!!

**Kopi_Red** · 05-07-2017, 09:02 PM

That episode was great. The food looked sooo good!

**Benny Profane** · 10-16-2017, 08:06 AM

Wow, a real clunker last week from the French Alps in winter. Pretty bad. Food looked great, but Bourdain was at his most obnoxious. He's not a skier, which he admitted, but still insisted on showing us his gorilla wedge style. I think he was in Chamonix. The worst part was his "interview" with a husband and wife couple who were patrol/medical at Chamonix, from what looked like the inside of top of the tram building. It was just awkward. Way out of his league. They looked at him like he was the jerk he could be.