On Jul 14, 5:37 pm, "
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> On Jun 22, 12:30 pm, Kyle > wrote:
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> > On Jun 21, 11:21 am, Nancy2 > wrote:
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> > > > underdog of choice for this season is Jag, but I expect him to be
> > > > going fairly soon -- especially now that it's emerged he fabricated
> > > > and/or misrepresented some of his military and culinary experience.
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> > > What did he misrepresent?
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> > Supposedly Jag claims he was released from the military as a corporal
> > when he was really released as a private; he claimed he saw combat
> > service in Afganistan when he did not (although he apparently responds
> > that the FN played a role in this fiction, since they were seeking a
> > person withc combat experience); and he claims to have graduated from
> > a NY culinary school which he really attended without graduating.
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> Jag is a glaring fake, as is Tony Bourdain.
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> I like Bourdain's books, but I would never patronize a restaurant at
> which he is the chef. Bourdain is a former long-time heroin junkie
> who prefers to hire ex-cons and illegal aliens over people who
> graduated from culinery school.

He's a *former* junkie. Why would you hold that against him?

And Bourdain gives good, convincing reasons for hiring the (mostly
Mexican) people he hires.


> He hates his patrons, hates educated people, hates everyone who
> disagrees with him, gleefully serves substandard food if he just
> doesn't like your face.

Where are you getting these ideas, Janos? Please be specific.


> He had a show on FN, and when it wasn't renewed, lashed out against it
> like a jealous little boy who didn't get
> his way. He made insultive statements against FN and its programs and
> hosts..

What are you smoking? Bourdain left the Food Network when they told
him the shows he likes to do -- particularly one about Ferran Adira
and El Bulli -- didn't fit their business model. The FN wanted him to
stop travelling abroad, stop featuring foreigners, and to start
emphasizing barbecue and hamburgers. They wanted to dumb him down,
turn him into anther Bobby Flay -- and Bourdain walked. He deserves
tons of respect for it; the FN deserves our continued contempt.

> If he hates FN so much, why did he take a job with them?

Usually, one doesn't get to know an entity until one is experienced
with it. Bourdain's show was the best thing the FN ever ran. It's
their fault, not his, that it ended, and the FN deserves ever jibe
Bourdain makes against them.