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http://anthony-bourdain-blog.travelchannel.com/tag/anthony bourdain blog.rssFailure has a stench all its own. It smells like fear ... and shame. I may have been conveniently removed from the burning wreckage inspired by last week's experiment, happily narcotized in a pressurized cabin on its way to Manila, but the odor followed me just the same.
It says something when the comments about a show (on my blog and on the message boards) were smarter, more thoughtful and insightful than the show itself.
The People Have Spoken.
Continue Reading Pressure Drop.
It sounded like a truly terrible idea from the get-go -- Solicit video submissions from absolute strangers, pick one of them, and then put myself into said stranger's hands for a week, someplace I've never been. I hadn't been paying attention when the network suggested it, and I looked at the prospect as a far away, slow moving train that would hopefully never arrive and figured that in any case, it could be finessed. If I actually had to go somewhere with a fan, I'd pick someplace close and easy.
Continue Reading Wrong Again!.
It's all too common in Latin America, where the divide between rich and poor is usually very wide, to hear stark differences in outlook and attitudes at the table. When dining with the rich, the poor are often referred to with varying degrees of fear, condescension, and outright contempt.
Continue Reading Colombia: Vacation Wonderland.
I've seen a torrent of outrage unleashed in the last week, most of it along the lines of:
"How could you send Dale home! Dale!!"
"Why not the sneering, contemptuous, less capable and unloveable Lisa?"
" Or the slippery, oleagenous Spike? He didn't even cook anything!"
"It's a fix, man! "
So what did happen? How come the more talented Dale, with a far more distinguished record of wins than his teammates, was the one to pack his knives....and...go? Lisa, it appeared, had two seriously screwed up dishes. Dale only had one!
True enough. But oh, what a one.
Continue Reading Very Bad Things: Blogging Top Chef.
Very Bad Things: Blogging Top Chef