The Bourdain bitch slap
As a guest blogger for Ruhlman.com, Anthony Bourdain unabashedly roasts the cheery Food Network cooks with a cockiness that we love. There may be nothing more refreshing than when a chef abandons restraint for honesty when discussing other chefs.
Bourdain on the easiest target of all: Rachel Ray:
Wallowing in your own crapulence on your Cheeto-littered couch you watch her and think, "Hell...I could do that. I ain't gonna...but I could--if I wanted! Now where's my damn jug a Diet Pepsi?" Where the saintly Julia Child sought to raise expectations, to enlighten us, make us better--teach us--and in fact, did, Rachael uses her strange and terrible powers to narcotize her public with her hypnotic mantra of Yummo and Evoo and Sammys. "You're doing just fine. You don't even have to chop an onion--you can buy it already chopped. Aspire to nothing...Just sit there. Have another Triscuit...Sleep...sleep..."
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
[thanks for the link, Kevin]
Bourdain's new concept for the Iron Chef battles is also hilarious. Are there any Food Network producers out there who could make these Iron Chef match ups happen?
* Mario Batali (with one arm tied behind his back--and drunk) vs. Regina Schrambling
* Michael Ruhlman, swacked on Ripple, vs. John Mariani-- in a Charcuterie Challenge
* Grant Achatz vs. That Guy In Australia Who Ripped off his recipes as his own
* Marco Pierre White vs. Gordon Ramsay
* Charlie Trotter vs. Martin Picard (Chicken Livers vs. Foie Gras)
* Chris Cosentino, Fergus Henderson, Martin Picard vs. Alain Passard, Roxanne Klein and Charlie Trotter (Cooked vs. Raw Challenge)
* Martha Stewart vs. Rachael Ray (bare knuckle cage match)
* Ducasse vs. Robuchon
* “Mikey” from Top Chef vs. Sandra Lee
