Huge fan of him. I am obsessed with his shows A Cooks Tour and No Reservations. Has anyone read any of his books? Which one should I get first, No Reservations, or Kitchen Confidential?

1/15/2008 12:48:51 AM

Kitchen Confidential

1/15/2008 1:47:46 AM

no reservations was more entertaining IMO.

[Edited on January 15, 2008 at 2:18 AM. Reason : wh]

1/15/2008 2:18:19 AM

It's too bad he's an intolerable d-bag.

1/15/2008 4:44:44 AM

I like his shows.

1/15/2008 6:33:47 AM

^ yeah, but i can see him being a d-bag/asshole though

1/15/2008 11:56:44 AM

he's a total asshole, and I dig that

1/15/2008 12:39:31 PM

I think he is a fucking badass.

1/15/2008 2:35:49 PM

still a great show

1/15/2008 2:47:22 PM

I love how he just smokes it up and gets plastered during his show. Of course they don't show him drunk off his ass, but you know he gets there. I wish I could get paid to travel all around the world, eating cool ass food, and drinking up. I envy his life.

1/15/2008 2:50:46 PM

After reading an interview with Bourdain I DVR'd a few episodes of No Reservations and just started watching it. My first episode was the one where he ended up eating the raw seal (eyeball!) at the end of the show. It was a very interesting show and it goes well beyond the cooking and into the culture of the people. I'll definitely watch more.

[Edited on January 15, 2008 at 4:43 PM. Reason : s]

1/15/2008 4:43:03 PM

Yeah I have learned more about different cultures from No Reservations than I have from any other single source. The way he presents the show is just awesome.

1/15/2008 5:28:25 PM

Love his show. One of my dream jobs would be to be a member of his crew, or his producer or something. I also approve of his disgust with vegetarians.

1/15/2008 6:35:59 PM

I hate the asshole

1/15/2008 7:01:48 PM

he's a douche

ooooh he chain smokes and wears an earring!!! he's so fucking cool

1/15/2008 8:05:24 PM

Great fucking show.

1/30/2008 3:04:26 AM

WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?????

1/30/2008 7:43:41 AM

what about Bobby Flay

that dudes an ass

1/30/2008 8:44:55 AM

I'm obsessed with him too

Apparently he has quit smoking because he has a baby now....

I'm looking forward to next week's No Reservations episode in New Orleans, because the commercial showed him with Emeril, and I always heard that he thought Emeril sucked....

I recently finished reading Kitchen Confidential, it was pretty entertaining, I want to get the other stuff he has written

1/31/2008 3:31:00 PM

This guy's shows and alton brown's are my favorite food shows.

[Edited on January 31, 2008 at 3:36 PM. Reason : And I definetly got my gf and several other people hooked on them, too.]

1/31/2008 3:36:09 PM

Quote :

"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold. Oh, I'll accommodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine."

1/31/2008 3:44:22 PM

I've watched a few more episodes. Greece was good and I liked the look of a lot of their foods.

Germany bored me and the food looked nasty even after cooking so I deleted it about 2/3 of the way through.

New Orleans looks interesting.

1/31/2008 5:52:32 PM

Quote :

"and I always heard that he thought Emeril sucked...."

if you finished reading kitchen confidential, you should have known that he likes emeril a little bit more now that he's gotten to know the guy. he can cook and that's most important to tony.

[Edited on February 1, 2008 at 2:44 AM. Reason : he still hates vegans though.]

2/1/2008 2:43:47 AM

he was a jerk during the Greece episode. other than that, he's good stuff.

i like The Thirsty Traveler and Zane Lamprey from Three Sheets better...

2/1/2008 11:13:56 AM

three sheets is my favorite show on television.

2/1/2008 11:27:34 AM

^^^i didn't even think about that, i guess i was just thinking of other jokes i've heard him make about him


the greece one was good the other night, but it seemed to me that he really didn't like being there....

2/1/2008 4:32:52 PM