On Jul 15, 10:59 pm, Kyle > wrote:
> On Jul 15, 9:43 pm, "
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> > On Jul 15, 6:19 pm, Kyle > wrote:
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> > > On Jul 14, 9:25 pm, notbob > wrote:
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> > > > On 2007-07-15, Kyle > wrote:
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> > > > > And Bourdain gives good, convincing reasons for hiring the (mostly
> > > > > Mexican) people he hires.
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> > > > Then he's liar. He hires them cuz they're cheap. End of story.
> > > > Mexicans don't chop lettuce better than anyone else.
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> > > > > turn him into anther Bobby Flay -- and Bourdain walked. He deserves
> > > > > tons of respect for it; the FN deserves our continued contempt.
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> > > > So, now we get him bad mouthing everyone else in the industry and
> > > > eating eyeballs and snake blood. Yeah, a real class act.
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> > > 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.
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> > I'm showing my age, but I think that being a heroin junkie shows a
> > lack of character.
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> You're showing confusion more than age. I've reminded you already
> that Bourdain is a *former* heroin addict. He conquered it. What
> could be more characterful than that?
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> > 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.- Hide quoted text -
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> I'm a bit skeptical of this story. But help me out: What type of
> potatoes (which you say TB could not identify) are in this pic?


Why are you skeptical of this story? You could read his books for
yourself. You don't even have to buy them, you could borrow them from
your local public library for free.

(The public library is a place where you can borrow books to
read...ever hear of it...books...read)?