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A Drive by Shooting

By Anthony Bourdain on July 31, 2009 11:15 AM | Permalink | 122 Comments

This week's "Special" episode is a compendium of footage, shot over time around the world, celebrating the joys, delights (and occasional perils) of street food.
Basically? It's a clip show.

The thing I'm proudest of on this show is not what's seen on the screen. It's what you hear on the soundtrack: Now, ordinarily, we can't afford to use music from my favorite albums. Or ANY albums, for that matter. It's a ridiculous amount of money to get the rights to even the most innocuous of songs. For a long time, even the singing of "Happy Birthday" during a scene--or played on a jukebox in the background, could cost you BIG money. We're a tiny, five person crew, shooting entirely on small DV cameras with homemade jibs, using bags of rice and skateboards as dollies. We can't afford even "Happy Birthday!"

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A Drive by Shooting

How Can I Miss You, When You Won't Go Away?

By Anthony Bourdain on March 7, 2009 6:33 PM | Permalink | 293 Comments

New York to LA to Palm Springs. Palm Springs to LA, car to Santa Barbara. Back again. LA to New York. Back to Palm Springs via Chicago. Palm Springs to San Franciso to New York. New York to Santiago, Chile ... One week in the life.

There's a heartbreaking bit of business in "The Wrestler" (one of many small, sad and all-too-real touches). Mickey Rourke, playing broken down, way-past-his-prime wrestler, Randy "the Ram" Robinson, finishes up a bout, changes out of his tights and packs them away -- then toddles out of the locker room dragging a wheeled carry-on suitcase behind him. That tiny, minor note hit me hard, watching it on pay-per-view somewhere between New York and some where else, a spongy hotel bed with the climate control churning out a jet engine roar, a shaky, trilling sound as the mini-bar's compressor kicked in. That damn suitcase -- looking particularly tragic trailing behind Rourke's freakish, giant, action-figure bulk reminded me of well ...me.

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How Can I Miss You, When You Won't Go Away?

Not Fade Away

By Anthony Bourdain on February 22, 2009 11:26 AM | Permalink | 253 Comments

We're calling Monday night's show "DISAPPEARING MANHATTAN,, but this is not to suggest that Katz's Deli, or Keen's, or Russ & Daughters are going to fade away anytime soon (if ever). What I am saying with this "Special" episode is that these are exactly the kind of old school, hometown places I love; uniquely New York institutions who have survived the brutal caprices of style and changing tastes -- and are still worth going out of your way to patronize. Let me make this clear: "Old" does not necessarily mean "good." Just cause it's a "New York institution" doesn't mean you want to eat there. If it did, New Yorkers might actually eat at Tavern On The Green -- and Luchows would still be open.

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Not Fade Away

Hierarchy of Pork

By Anthony Bourdain on February 16, 2009 7:55 PM | Permalink | 695 Comments

I'm very nervous about tonight's Philippines show.

I'm all too aware of the fact that the country is made up of over seven THOUSAND islands and that I visited exactly two of them. The food is intensely regional ... I mean, even the difference between the food in Manila and Pampanga -- only a couple of hours away --is striking. So I missed ... a lot.

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Hierarchy of Pork

The Money

By Anthony Bourdain on February 7, 2009 7:38 PM | Permalink | 174 Comments

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word "prurient" as "having a mental itching or an uneasy or morbid craving." Secondarily, as "having or characterized by an unhealthy concern with sexual matters" or "encouraging such a concern."

With Monday night's special, FOOD PORN, "encouraging such a concern" is exactly what we were going for. Just swap the word "food" for "sexual."

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The Money