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  • Just because Bourdain can make savory beef-cheeks and roasted garlic potatoes taste like heaven doesn’t make him cooler than you. NEVER taking a trip out to Queens *or* Brooklyn in 32 years is reprehensible. The man is the host of a travel show, for Christ’s sake! Boooooooooo.

    Posted by Melissa
    on August 10th, 2007 at 11:33 am

  • I’m a huge fan of Bourdain–his writing and hilarious TV show–and Brian and I were especially excited to watch last week’s New York episode. We’re not too fond of the bald guy, but we watched that part too because we figured that a bizarre foods show on NYC would probably take place entirely in Queens.

    What a disappointment. Zimmerman didn’t even touch Queens, and Bourdain went to just one place, in Astoria. I thought they’d at least want to visit one of the Bukharian places. For the past year, I’ve been meaning to e-mail the No Reservations producers and suggest they do an episode entirely on Queens. Maybe I’ll still do that and see if I get a response . . .

    Posted by Sarah
    on August 10th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

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Cool people who don’t get out much

Posted by Steve on Thursday, August 9th, 2007

First in a (not really) recurring series: Anthony Bourdain, the sometimes-entertaining, sometimes-irritating chef-turned-TV-personality who you suspect is right about many things, but not quite so many as he thinks he is. In a two-hour special currently airing on Travel Channel, fellow TC foodie (and native New Yorker) Andrew Zimmern takes his adventure-seeking soulmate to restaurants serving his beloved “bizarre foods” in Brooklyn and Queens. Bourdain, quite casually, remarks that he has never been to Brooklyn. Later, he says he’s never been to Queens, either. Not even to the airport?

According to Wikipedia, which is never wrong, Bourdain is 51. He moved to New York City at 19, thus giving him 32 years to actually leave Manhattan. Sometimes I have trouble leaving the neighborhood for the weekend. But for 32 years? C’mon, Tony, cooks aren’t that busy. I know I’ve seen your pal Batali tromping about in his silly clogs. Before I saw the special, I would have described Bourdain as more obnoxious than me, but also much cooler. Now? OK, still much cooler. But less cool than I thought!