On Jul 15, 6:19 pm, Kyle > wrote:
> On Jul 14, 9:25 pm, notbob > wrote:
>
> > On 2007-07-15, Kyle > wrote:
>
> > > And Bourdain gives good, convincing reasons for hiring the (mostly
> > > Mexican) people he hires.
>
> > Then he's liar. He hires them cuz they're cheap. End of story.
> > Mexicans don't chop lettuce better than anyone else.
>
> > > turn him into anther Bobby Flay -- and Bourdain walked. He deserves
> > > tons of respect for it; the FN deserves our continued contempt.
>
> > So, now we get him bad mouthing everyone else in the industry and
> > eating eyeballs and snake blood. Yeah, a real class act.
>
> We've argued about Bourdain before, NB, and your comments here are a
> reminder that you know extremely little about the guy; and you've
> paradoxically got some weird issues with him. Bourdain goes into
> detail in several of his books as to why he likes to employ Mexicans
> (they're skilled & hard workers). Your comments about Mexicans "being
> cheap" and "chopping lettuce" amount to mere stereotyping. Bourdain
> doesn't badmouth "everyone in the industry." He's generous in his
> praise for good cooks. He does, however, bash many of the *FN
> personalities*, and he does so amusingly & creatively. They deserve
> his contempt.



I'm showing my age, but I think that being a heroin junkie shows a
lack of character.

In his book, "Les Halles Cookbook", he didn't even know what type of
potato he was serving, (there is a photo of the box). He named the
distributor instead of the variety.
Every old lady knows the difference in potatoes. He doesn't.