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Snarkology, The Sweet Science

By Anthony Bourdain on January 24, 2009 11:27 PM | Permalink | 178 Comments

As far back as the early days of A COOK'S TOUR, that earlier, less good show on that other, crummier network, when it was just me, Chris Collins, Lydia Tenaglia and Diane Schutz travelling around the world together, shooting and scouting, they started calling me "Vic" - short for "Vic Chanko," whenever I'd get testy. The name emanated from a prolonged, alcohol and fatigue, fueled fit of the giggles after an enormous meal of "chanko-nabe," a less-than-light hotpot dish favored by sumo wrestlers. We found ourselves in late night Tokyo, riffing on the word "chanko," conjuring the national film career of the imaginary star of spaghetti westerns, Yugoslavian-Italian co-productions, bad Filipino-Rambo knock-offs, "Vic Chanko". It seemed funny at the time.

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Snarkology, The Sweet Science

From Russia With Love

By Anthony Bourdain on January 12, 2009 2:13 PM | Permalink | 150 Comments

Zamir is a man of many parts. With limited experience in the American heartland, he's seen a side of this country in Baltimore, Detroit and Buffalo very different from New York City. And apparently, he takes the "land of opportunity" thing seriously.

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From Russia With Love

Rust Never Sleeps

By Anthony Bourdain on January 9, 2009 2:42 PM | Permalink | 177 Comments

I suspect that our President elect would have serious reservations about the cocktail that bears his name at Mo's Crab & Pasta joint in Baltimore. It's a scary blue, sickly sweet  coconut tasting concoction with a lethal kick. And yet—and yet; here we were; me, a group of white construction workers, our Iranian-American hosts and Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, a diminutive young black woman who after six years in Jessup for Murder Two, emerged to find herself playing what Steven King called "the most terrifying female villain in the history of television"—a character not too far from her former self. We were drinking our "Obamas" and laughing our asses off—at what, I don't even remember.

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Rust Never Sleeps

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