Parts Unkown

Divemaster · 05-12-2013, 02:51

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?

**Team Sergeant** · 05-12-2013, 07:33

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Originally Posted by Divemaster

And yours?

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

JJ_BPK · 05-12-2013, 08:56

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..

**Team Sergeant** · 05-12-2013, 12:21

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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

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.....

uspsmark · 05-13-2013, 11:21

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You forgot drug addict.....

...and alcoholic!

(I do realize that statement is redundant since alcohol is a drug!)

JimP · 05-13-2013, 12:53

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...!!!

Divemaster · 05-12-2013, 12:42

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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

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

Pretty cool.