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(108,903 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown on CNN Sundays at 9 PM
http://www.cnn.com/video/shows/anthony-bourdain-parts-unknown/index.html
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,621 posts)k & r
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)His contract does not require him to go into war zones. He gets the same amount of money if he is filming a street fair in Milwaukee Wisc, or is off filming the bombing in Beirut. (That episode of "No Reservations!" is awesome. It is really required viewing for anyone who wants to see what is happening abroad with the weaponry our country gives other nations.)
I have never thought of him as anything but a heroic person after seeing that one episode. I was always amazed that it got put on the air here in The USA.
WillyT
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Gin
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Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)It ended up as a documentary. He is very courageous.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)I'd have either been in the basement of the hotel drinking myself blotto, or else shitting my pants (or possibly both.)
He really went beyond the pale on that one.
He has an incredible amount of guts.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)breakfast for most of the people in Cairo when he was there:
He wanted to film a segment featuring foul, the breakfast — and main meal — of many Egyptians. As the clip below shows, it’s a dish that includes seasoned fava beans and “a lot of bread.” His government-provided guides, however, were aghast:
“No, no, they said. This is not interesting; you don’t want see this,” he said of their guides, who went so far as to forbid it and threatened to revoke filming permits and make them leave the country. So, one of the crew members feigned sickness as a distraction, and they were able to shoot the scene.
“Why were they so insistent? What was it that was so worrying to them?…It’s because they knew the show is broadcast all over the world, including in Egypt. This was prior to the revolution. The army owned all the bakeries and controlled the distribution of flour; there were bread wars.
“Not only is this the daily food of most Egyptians, it’s pretty much all most Egyptians eat every day. That’s it. A little bowl of beans and a big stack of bread,” he said. “They understood the power of this scene. They knew this show was beamed back to Egypt and they’d be watching, thinking, ‘That’s what we eat? We have a terrible government.’
alfredo
(60,301 posts)HiPointDem
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KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)In the US, for example, Honey Boo Boo showed us what many Americans eat on a daily basis -- 40-cents worth of pasta and ketchup and that varies from the CW of 'meat, potatoes and a veg.' It showed that we are quite malnourished in spite of the outward appearance of being over-fed.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Also loved the Tangiers episode for different but connected reasons. This CNN series is good stuff.
That was gorgeous. Thank you so much or posting.
I'll send this to many friends.
I remember reading his first book, way back when.... It was what encouraged me to try to cook.
An now--- this.....
Warpy
(114,615 posts)and seems to get access through food that reporters never get through channels of any description.
His shows from Beirut during bombing, in Sri Lanka post tsunami, and in post quake Haiti have all been remarkable.
He can be a self congratulatory asshole when the shows are on his own turf. He rises to the occasion when they are not.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)He does rise to the occasion and he can turn a phrase.
Mopar151
(10,348 posts)Anyone who can watch it and not be moved is a defective human.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)sufrommich
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Nevernose
(13,081 posts)"Get Jiro!" is one of my favorite graphic novels of the last few years.
alfredo
(60,301 posts)
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)does it expertly with a demonstrated humanity. He is always a little rough but respectful. We've seen the man eat shit-filled intestine in order to bridge the gap between us and some aboriginal tribe. I mean, so much quality in his shows and they allow us to travel the world vicariously through him.
I love Anthony Bourdain and what he does.
alfredo
(60,301 posts)The scene with the yams is what I am thinking of.
http://www.amazon.com/Tampopo-Ken-Watanabe/dp/6305154880/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1375669672&sr=1-3&keywords=tampopo
Xithras
(16,191 posts)I didn't watch No Reservations, The Layover, and now Parts Unknown for the food. I watch him because he's entertaining and because he has an incredible ability to connect with people on a human level over a loaf of bread. He has also showed a relentless curiosity and a lack of fear that is almost extinct in modern television. Couple that with his acerbic writing style that lends his shows a throwback quality, and Bourdain ends up striking me as somone who could have been seen hanging out with Kerouac or Borroughs, if not for the fact that his mother birthed him a few decades too late.
It's true that he can occasionally be a bit grating, but who isn't from time to time?
drmeow
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leftstreet
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Socal31
(2,491 posts)No Reservations should be required viewing in school......
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)he has done some amazing stuff for the last several years. He really gets to the heart of the people and the places he visits.
mckara
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Hydra
(14,459 posts)And I hope the Libyans can make a better future for themselves. We propped up a dictator there, and then we helped them remove him. Hopefully the hand is not deep enough to drag them back into hell again.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Ottavia is from Sardinia.
I always find his sometimes insulting humor funny, but he shows a more gentle side in his Sardinia show with his wife and her family. He seems like a genuinely fascinating guy who was born to cook and wander the world looking for food.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)As I remember that particular episode:
There's a street vendor and he and his crew decide to buy all her day's food for the kids standing around watching the taping. The kids are obviously hungry.
They pay for the food and thugs come along and beat the kids away to get the food.
Here is a review of this episode:
The Haiti episode, which contrasted his tour of the country’s culinary highlights with scenes of its continued blight and poverty, was less a travel show than a kind of multilayered essay on Haiti’s political history, the ethics of tourism, the morality of journalism/voyeurism and the wisdom of well-intentioned efforts. In an early scene, Bourdain and crew guiltily buy out a food stand to feed hungry onlookers, and fights break out among the too-large crowd. “Simple!” he narrates. “Fill the bellies of some cute kids! A goodhearted expression of kindness! We all go back to our hotel feeling really good about ourselves, right? … Because we thought with our hearts and not our heads, it all turned to sh-t.”
Introducing the episode, Bourdain notes that—unlike many countries the show has visited—people in Haiti tend to avoid cameras because they’ve paraded their suffering for too many Western cameramen for the promise of help that didn’t materialize. “Are we part of the problem?” he asks.
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2011/03/01/the-morning-after-discomfort-food/#ixzz2b3hqPkHD
deutsey
(20,166 posts)and was very impressed with Bourdain's unflinching honesty in how he told that story.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 5, 2013, 07:25 AM - Edit history (1)
It looks like a decaying corpse.
Nice job, Hillary and David. For our second course, we go to Syria . . .
valerief
(53,235 posts)
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)is real
his first book tells my life
believe him he is full of truths
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)willing to tell the truth? That was rhetorical of course. I know why. Almost nobody tells the truth anymore.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)which most of those who claim to be in our MSM are (who are really simple news readers).
Historic NY
(40,037 posts)perhaps you should be briefing the idiots in Washington.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)the edges. He is a brilliant writer and journalist and keen observer of his fellow humans.
And he's got big brass ones, as evidenced by this and the Beirut show.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)food, cooking, people his passion..
Lucky Luciano
(11,863 posts)Definitely my kind of guy ranging from the foodie all the way to the rough and tumble style of traveling that I crave.
a la izquierda
(12,336 posts)Even though he can be an ass to vegans and vegetarians. He is sharp, witty, and ultimately caring.
progressoid
(53,179 posts)Now I have a link to send them! Thanks!
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)who could come into contact with foreign persons, and sometimes even important persons, and pass information back.
Julia Child sought to trivialize her contact with the CIA, but Operation Mockingbird was real. They financed a great number of people and gave covers to them. Being a traveling chef in today's world would be a natural.
Mojorabbit
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DonCoquixote
(13,960 posts)That the only people doing the journalist jobs are Comedians and Chefs. For all the talk of how the Internet killed journalism, I say the "profession" of journalism drank itself to death a long, long time ago.
cali
(114,904 posts)to Matt Taibbi, there are outstanding journalists all over the map. I know the meme that prevails hre is that there are no journalists but it's a mindless meme.
Now the state of the MSM is another matter.
DonCoquixote
(13,960 posts)Yes, smaller media outlets have them, but they are not considered foundations of the profession. The fact is, the fringes are doing the work the base should, and that, in and of itself, means journalism as a whole is malfunctioning.
cali
(114,904 posts)Pierce works for Esquire. There are some terrific journalists at the NYT, the LA Times and The New Yorker who still practice old style investigative journalism. The folks I'm talking about are not at smaller media outlets- though there are plenty of those at MJ, The Nation, The American Prospect and other outlets.
My point is simple, despite the failure of TV news, and by any reasonable standard it's a failure- that there aren't several people as skilled and dedicated as Engle, is a shame- there are lots of good journalists who when it comes to print and internet outlets. And there's a burgeoning local and state writing scene about politics and local news stories.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)I'm a big fan of Bourdain's and went to see him and Eric Ripert when they were in Charlotte. Who knew two chefs sitting around on stage could be so entertaining, but they were.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Ingredients
4 cups fine white flour
4 tablespoons olive oil for the dough
4 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoon baking powder
One cup warm milk and 1/2 cup warm water (or one and a half cups warm water)
1/2 cup warm water for the yeast
(25g fresh yeast or 1 tablespoon dried yeast + 1 teaspoon sugar)
corn oil for deep frying
http://libyanfood.blogspot.com/2010/12/libyan-dougnut-sfinz.html
The show & Bourdain were both great as usual! The Sfinz with eggs really looked soooooo good I had to google for the recipe. The Libyan Food blog has some great looking recipes! Check it out.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)a little about the video, since I don't have 42 minutes to watch it?
What is it about? Food? Human rights? Both? Other?
eissa
(4,238 posts)I love how he can be completely snarky, yet is always respectable and polite to his hosts. For me, the show that will live in infamy is Namibia. Watching Bourdain consume the poop shoot of a wild hog was that combination of awful and entertaining. The poor man was totally freaked out by the offering, but had to maintain his composure in front of his hosts.
The only episode I took issue with in terms of accuracy was of the Kurdistan region of Iraq. It was like an infomercial by the Kurdish regional government and glossed over a lot of really crappy things that go on there. Not to mention that almost fabricated history of the region that was being spewed.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)with a schtick.
he was not in libya during the war. his take on libya is straight out of the offices of NED, & one of his 'informants' is a ned blogger.
Bauman defines two categories of world citizens, ‘high up’ tourists as members of the developed world who can afford increasing mobility, and ‘low down’ vagabonds, who have little in the way of resources, mobility, or hope.
To the postmodern sensibilities of the geek, the gawky tourist is an entirely unappealing identity, devoid of the authenticating ambivalence and ironic distancing of the Gen-X slacker who is the embodiment of a self-imposed and simulated vagabond identity. A current example of our reverse reading of Bauman’s model occurs in celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who hosts The Travel Channel’s No Reservations and gains ironic admiration and authenticity for his simulated vagabond-ness and ability to travel to locations loved and frequented by natives. Bourdain’s punk ethos and his history of drug use are foregrounded in his star text much more prominently than his matriculation at Vassar. Slackers are self-perceived outcasts, invested in sub-cultural geekiness in ways related to their attempts at false ethnicity.
http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/SolesKunyoGeedom/3.html
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I like his honesty and humor. 