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Around every corner there is a critic. I have been a fan of Anthony Bourdain's shows prior to CNN. I remain a fan now. Well produced and enjoyable. I like the vibe and the pace. If the QPs pause for a moment, he's doing what we've always done but only with a camera crew and a food focus.

If you can't follow in his well prepared and researched footsteps, perhaps you will be inspired to forge your own path.

When you do, report back here. If you already have, recount your adventures.

My own minor contribution:

I recall a special meal in Venice. I don't remember the exact place. It was a tiny, oh perhaps a four table place on a side path with great doors and shuttered windows along the way. My blue Irish eyes gazing in wonder as my Sicilian wife's large and knowing brown eyes ordered. She's totally American but knows her way around an Italian menu.

The tiny, confined Venetian space. The antipasti. The precious moments with my soul mate. A precious travel memory.

And yours?

Mine would be cooking about 10 feet from Anthony Bourdain & Eric Ripert on a beach in the Cayman Islands......;)

If it weren't for the fact that Bourdain is such a pompous condescending LEFT_WING_NUT a$$ho,, his shows are pretty good.

If you like the far east cooking, try watching Luke Nguyen, Vietnam. It's a niche cuisine style, but he has good showmanship and the food is real local home cooking.

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/show...s-vietnam.html

As I am one of the VN FOG's, his show brings back memories. I spent some time with the 1st ARVN Airborne, Including a formal TET diner. The BN cooks were fantastic..

You forgot drug addict..... :munchin

Pretty cool.

...and alcoholic! :munchin (I do realize that statement is redundant since alcohol is a drug!)

If it weren't for the fact that Bourdain is such a pompous condescending LEFT_WING_NUT a$$ho,, his shows are pretty good.

JJ hit it - he is an asses ass. I freakin' can't stand the pompous assclownery of that liberal POS.

One of my better memories was on a bluff of the Gulf of Aqaba, in Sharm El Shiek, Egypt with the New Zealand LNO. Ate some sort of fish and a rice that I have been searching for since then and been unsuccessful finding. Great meal, incredible setting and great company. Almost matched by the Skinny-dipping with her in the Med off the coast of Tel Aviv during a full moon. Man....we get to do some FUN things for God and Country...!!!

One of my favorites- A few of us from the the 46th SFCo went to Thailand a few years ago. Some of the guys had to go to the tailor for a fitting. Another guy and I went across the street to a little roadside place and ordered Khao Pat Cai(Chicken fried rice for you poor souls who have never been to Thailand) and Singha's. After a couple bites, my friend said, "This is what I remember about Thailand." A simple, delicious meal, ice cold beer, just sitting along a road at Pattaya, watching life go by. It was one of the highlights of the trip.

Now keep in mind that we didn't go skinny dipping on the beach, but it was fun...

I thought this was SDiver's next medical mystery and it involved ambiguous genitalia. :D

You can find that in Thailand, also...

I spent 14 months there as well...I was the dive medic for the time I was assigned to the MFO and our flight surgeon was a diver too. Had some great times in the Red Sea, on it's beaches and in Israel. We used to go to the mess hall and get the cooks to give us stuff to cook on the beach and buy the beer and such at the FX. There weren't that many women in the MFO, but the tourists provided all the distraction one could want! I was also a flight medical NCO and worked my schedule to make sure I got plenty of diving and flying in. One of the best assignments other than the Beirut Air Bridge that I ever had.