Anthony Bourdain

For Once, Someone Got An L.A. Food Show Right: Bourdain's Parts Unknown Koreatown Episode

By Besha Rodell Mon., Apr. 22 2013 at 10:49 AM
Categories: Anthony Bourdain, Food on Television, L.A. Chefs

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Screen Capture, Parts Unknown Koreatown episode
Nara Plaza in Koreatown
For the second installment of his new CNN show Parts Unknown, which aired last night, Anthony Bourdain explored L.A.'s Koreatown. The show was insightful, revealing and pretty much spot-on, giving an accurate depiction of both the fraught history of K-Town and its current status as one of our city's culinary and cultural gems. Which is a relief, seeing as no food TV show ever seems to get Los Angeles right, including past L.A.-themed episodes of Bourdain's Travel Channel show, No Reservations.

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6 Lessons From "Guts and Glory": Anthony Bourdain and Roy Choi on Paula Deen, The Taste + Authentic Food

By Erika Bolden Wed., Apr. 17 2013 at 3:32 PM
Categories: Anthony Bourdain, Events & Festivals, L.A. Chefs

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Anthony Bourdain + Roy Choi on the Guts and Glory Tour
Anthony Bourdain greeted a packed house at the Pantages last night. The Los Angeles installment of Bourdain's "Guts and Glory" tour took place in the opulent 1930 theatre with a crowd that was more academic than hip, and fiercely local as demonstrated by any reference to L.A. -- and especially during the introduction of Bourdain's co-host, Roy Choi.

The chefs opened with questions for each other, standing for a verbal tennis match, then sat and cracked beers for a more fluid dialogue, finally ending with questions from the audience. Bourdain was ruthless as ever, even mocking the audience for spending hard earned money on the tickets. But his charisma and tendency toward self-deprecation won the crowd over -- and made it clear why he's such a compelling player on the food world stage.

Bourdain made clear his abhorrence of the fois gras ban as "an embarrassment to California," and he noted that the birds aren't being asked to do "anything an adult film star doesn't do twice a day." More impromptu editorializing came when the audience asked questions, particularly one about Red Medicine's recent twitter tantrums. Bourdain said that the restaurant had gone too far in calling out patrons who never showed for their reservations; Choi that they hadn't gone far enough.

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Anthony Bourdain Debuts Parts Unknown on CNN

By Besha Rodell Mon., Apr. 15 2013 at 9:41 AM
Categories: Anthony Bourdain, Food on Television

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CNN.com
Anthony Bourdain's new CNN show Parts Unknown debuted last night on CNN. The show, which is very much like his Travel Channel show No Reservations, which ended in November of last year, took us last night to Myanmar, a country that only recently began allowing outsiders in, let alone western film crews.

The show very much followed the format of No Reservations -- no surprises, seeing as it's a formula that wasn't broken in the first place, and because Parts Unknown is produced by Zero Point Zero Production, the same company Bourdain worked with for No Reservations and The Layover.

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Anthony Bourdain is Giving Sex and Dating Advice in Cosmo

By Besha Rodell Thu., Mar. 7 2013 at 11:29 AM
Categories: Anthony Bourdain

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Anthony Bourdain in Tijuana
Via Travel Channel
Last week during Anthony Bourdain's Reddit Q&A, when someone asked him why he decided to do The Taste, he responded "I liked the idea that it was the most unlikely thing I could do." At the time I thought, "hmmm ... not really the most unlikely thing you could do." And now that point has been proven -- because Bourdain has gone and done the actual most unlikely thing he could do, and that is partake in one of Cosmo's ways-to-please-your-man articles.

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Anthony Bourdain's Reddit Q & A

By Besha Rodell Mon., Feb. 25 2013 at 1:49 PM
Categories: Anthony Bourdain

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Anthony Bourdain in Tijuana
Via Travel Channel
A little over an hour ago, Anthony Bourdain jumped on Reddit to answer fan questions. A lot of familiar territory was covered -- why he left the Travel Channel for CNN, why he decided to do The Taste, what his favorite thing to eat in a multitude of places was.

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