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> On Jul 15, 10:59 pm, Kyle > wrote:
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> > 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?
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> 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.

If "every old lady" knows her potatoes so well, it's funny that you
*can't* identify the ones in the photo.