Unsavory Culinary Elitism

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey
Frank Bruni takes on Bourdain...

Anthony Bourdain, the part-time chef and full-time celebrity, has a tongue on him. It’s the sharpest knife in his set. He has used it to carve up vegans, whom he called the “Hezbollah-like splinter faction” of vegetarians, and the culinary moralist Alice Waters, whose rigidity is “very Khmer Rouge.”

The latest to be slashed: Paula Deen. For the uninitiated, she’s the deep-fried doyenne of a fatty, buttery subgenre of putatively Southern cooking. And Bourdain, in an interview with TV Guide published last week, branded her an outright menace to America, scolding her for “telling an already obese nation that it’s O.K. to eat food that is killing us.”

To this he added a gratuitous schoolyard-crass putdown of Deen cuisine.

Which certainly isn’t my cup of lard. But it bothers me no more than his ill-timed elitism, which Deen nailed in her response.

“Not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine,” she told The New York Post. “My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.”
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Unsavory Culinary Elitism

. . . . . . . Pete
 
i don't agree with bourdain's comments about deen but hers are just as uninformed. tony's far from a culinary elitist. i have read all his books and watched all his shows and he's more likely to eat basic native foods, usually grilled, and wash it down with the local beer.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
The article is much more interesting than the Bourdain-bashing quote that Peter excerpted above.
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Bruni is a toad.
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Yeah, the article read like a big rehash of old arguments. But I guess people have new episodes of tv programs to promote.
 
What do you know, a one year print subscription is only $16.50--a savings of 92 percent off the newsstand price, and a mere 29 cents an issue!

Frankly it would be foolish not to subscribe.

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www.tvguide.com
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
TV Guide is still being published?

Wow!
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People still watch TV?

That's so... 20th Century.

Mark Lipton
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TV guide was how I confirmed that Batman was on Tuesday nights at 7:30 on channel 7, Wild Kingdom was on every Sunday night at 8 and Dark Shadows was on every afternoon from 2:30. It was my go to resource...I never thought to read the interviews.
 
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