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This is a great show and you should all watch it. 4 DVD collections are available on Netflix streaming.

Here he is in San Francisco


Here's his opinion of vegetarians:

"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."


-- Edited by john31584 on Saturday 9th of January 2010 07:23:02 PM

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Easily one of my favorite shows on TV, and I tend to hate TV in general. Bourdain is able to piece together interesting and entertaining travel shows without dumbing them down and/or resorting to cliches.

I agree that everyone should watch it.

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I've had that bacon-maple latte that he has in that clip.

It's delicious.

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JEALOUS.

How noticeable is the bacon?

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A clip from his episode in my adopted (and, I hope, temporary) hometown:




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JEALOUS.

How noticeable is the bacon?



The "refined bacon" is, I think, just rendered bacon fat.

They mix the maple syrup and bacon fat with the milk, and then steam it. That causes the fat to melt, and then emulsify in the milk, so it permeates the entire drink, rather than being an oil slick on top.

The bacon flavor is definitely noticeable, but I think it adds a very pleasant smoky and savory note to what would otherwise be an overly sweet drink.

They also top it with finely-chopped bacon bits (where one might otherwise put nutmeg or cocoa powder), which I think is a bit much. It certainly doesn't ruin the drink, though. It just turns it into a drink that you have to chew.



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The episode he did on the Azores really made me want to go there.

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Oh, and that Mexican place he goes to at the farmers' market?

Some of the best food I've ever eaten, of any kind, anywhere.

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john31584 wrote:

The episode he did on the Azores really made me want to go there.



I had never even heard of the Azores, but now the islands are on my (lengthy) list of travel destinations.

 

Another surprisingly interesting locale was Uzbekistan.

 

Seriously, why aren't you other people watching this show right now?



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Seriously, why aren't you other people watching this show right now?



I can only speak for myself, but this whole topic is just too white for words.



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NO ONE ELSE HAS THAT EXCUSE.

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Did you see this week's episode on Brittany?

I never really knew anything about the region, but it looks like my kind of place (#51 - living by the water).

-- Edited by john31584 on Wednesday 27th of January 2010 03:28:23 PM

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I don't have the Travel Channel, anymore, but I know that Brittany is a strange and interesting place.

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I would only go to Uzbekistan if Zamir were coming along.

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I would want Zamir with me wherever I go. Did you see the "Rust Belt" episode? Golden.

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Pizza wrote:


I can only speak for myself, but this whole topic is just too white for words.



 Only white people like food now?


 Works out ok for me I guess.



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I think he's talking about the whole foodie/travel nerd thing being incredibly white, like, pastel-sweater-tied-around-your-shoulders white.

And he's kind of right.

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Jason wrote:

I would want Zamir with me wherever I go. Did you see the "Rust Belt" episode? Golden.



Yeah. I wish I had groupies.



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Last night I went to Incanto, the restaurant specializing in offal that Bourdain visited in the SF episode.

It was awesome.

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Since I started watching the Travel Channel, it took me a very long time to realize they weren't saying "awful."

GO ME.

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