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February 10, 2009

Food Porn, Bourdain Style

I love Anthony Bourdain. Huge fan. I've read all his books and I always try to catch his brilliant TV show "No Reservations" on the Travel Channel.  Last night exceeded all.  Riffing on food porn, Bourdain's show managed to capture all the cheesy sleaze of the genre, with Tony holding court in the confines of a dimly lit movie theatre.  It was brill.  It was hilarious.  It was pure evil Bourdain.  As he puts it:

"FOOD PORN is a revenge of sorts -- for everything that ever ended up on the cutting room floor. The filthiest, nastiest hour of television we could get away with. And yet -- utterly wholesome! We ain't doing nothin' that Giada, Rachael and Sandra ain't been doin' for years, officer!"


Read all about it in Tony's blog.

Posted at 09:58 AM in Food and Drink, Food Network, Just Funny, TV |

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Leah Weiss Caruso

we don't have cable, do you know where I could find the video on the web? I googled but came up empty.

Posted by: Leah Weiss Caruso | February 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM

Judi Knight

Anthony Bourdain would be on my list of people I would like to spend time with. In his case, a LOT of time! I do love me some bad boy.

Posted by: Judi Knight | February 11, 2009 at 10:22 AM

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