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Just watched a one hour program by Anthony Bourdain on South Louisiana food
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:08 pm
Done in 2011, a great show on French quarter and Breaux Bridge. The dumb arse committed suicide not long after, but if you want a great segment on pig killing and cooking that's the place to go.
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Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:17 pm to Trevaylin
Every time you watch the movie XXX with Vin Diesel, always remind yourself that Anthony Bourdain killed himself over the main hot European girl in this movie(Asia Argento) because she cheated on him with an underage boy.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:21 pm to Hetfield
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Every time you watch the movie XXX with Vin Diesel, always remind yourself that Anthony Bourdain killed himself over the main hot European girl in this movie(Asia Argento) because she cheated on him with an underage boy.
Damn
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:24 pm to Trevaylin
Was a huge fan of his....traveling, eating and writing would have been my dream life and I really liked his writing style. That last episode at cajun mardi gras you could see the sadness in his eyes... he wasnt himself. Hard to watch someone who lived a life you envied not wanna carry on...RIP chef
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:31 pm to BrohemAlem11
Guy had the coolest life imaginable and he offed himself because he fell in love with a nasty guidette. I loved his show but seriously what a loser. He had a young kid. Absolute pathetic loser who is beneath contempt.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:35 pm to Trevaylin
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Done in 2011, a great show on French quarter and Breaux Bridge. The dumb arse committed suicide not long after, but if you want a great segment on pig killing and cooking that's the place to go.
Hard to imagine anyone here not knowing all of this already.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:38 pm to Hetfield
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Anthony Bourdain killed himself over the main hot European girl in this movie(Asia Argento) because she cheated on him with an underage boy
This story is the most under reported circumstance that I know.
Threw it all away for someone who did him wrong.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:45 pm to Hetfield
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Anthony Bourdain killed himself over the main hot European girl in this movie(Asia Argento)
Nevermind that, he killed himself with a 13 year old daughter he could have hugged the week after the trip. That is inexcusable, but a sign of how bad mental illness can drag people down.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:47 pm to ATrillionaire
I did not see it before, even though I camped on the Reese family plantation as a guest in 1974. Plantation is first six column house on east bank of bayou south of bridge in Breaux Bridge. You ever been to Breaux Bridge?
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:48 pm to Trevaylin
I liked his visit to a Waffle House
Posted on 2/1/26 at 7:52 pm to Trevaylin
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You ever been to Breaux Bridge?
Yes. The city holds a popular crawfish festival once a year.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:02 pm to ATrillionaire
quote:I have a very nice matted, framed, signed and numbered (128/425) poster from the BBCF from the last time I was there...in 1995
Yes. The city holds a popular crawfish festival once a year.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:06 pm to Trevaylin
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Marilyn Hagerty was 85 when she was mocked over a positive review of the chain. The chef publicly came to her aid
Hagerty is a food columnist for the Grand Forks Herald. In 2012, when she was 85, she wrote positively about a new Olive Garden in the city, which she called “the largest and most beautiful restaurant now operating in Grand Forks”.
“The chicken Alfredo ($10.95) was warm and comforting on a cold day,” Hagerty wrote. “The portion was generous. My server was ready with Parmesan cheese.”
For her praise of the widely derided chain, Hagerty was subjected to widespread online mockery. Bourdain, one of the most famous faces in food journalism in the world, quickly came to her defence.
“Marilyn Hagerty’s years of reviews [are] a history of dining in the America too few of us from the coasts have seen,” he tweeted. “We need to see.” He went on to denounce the “snarkologists (myself included)”.
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From Anthony Bourdain:
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What is it about the 86-year old Ms. Hagerty that inspired such attention and affection?
Why should you read this book?
Of the 7,000 pages of articles and reviews I read while assembling this collection, there is little of what one would call pyrotechnical prose. Ms. Hagerty's choices of food are shockingly consistent: A "Clubhouse sandwich," coleslaw, wild rice soup, salads assembled from a salad bar, baked potatoes. She is not what you'd call an adventurous diner, exploring the dark recesses of menus. Far from it. Of one lunch, she writes:
"There were signs saying the luncheon special was soup and a Denver sandwich for $2.25. In places where food service is limited, I tend to take the special. I wasn't born yesterday."
She is never mean,even when circumstances would clearly excuse a sharp elbow, a cruel remark. In fact, watching Marilyn struggle to find something nice to say about a place she clearly loathes is part of the fun. She is, unfailingly, a good neighbor and good citizen firsthand entertainer second
But what she HAS given us, over all these years, is a fascinating picture of dining in America, a gradual, cumulative overview of how we got from there... to here.
Grand Forks is NOT New York City. We forget that— until we read her earlier reviews and remember, some of us, when you'd find sloppy Joe, steak Diane, turkey noodle soup, three bean salad, red Jell-o in OUR neighborhoods. When the tuft of curly parsley and lemon wedge, or a leaf of lettuce and an orange segment, or three spears of asparagus fashioned into a wagon wheel, were state of the art garnishes. When you could order a half sandwich, a cup of soup. A pre-hipster world where lefse, potato dumplings and walleye were far more likely to appear on a menu than pork belly.
Reading these reviews, we can see, we can watch over the course of time, who makes it and who doesn't. Which bold, undercapitalized pioneers survived—and who, no matter how ahead of their time, just couldn't hang on until the neighborhood caught up. You will get to know the names of owners and chefs like Warren LeClerc, whose homey lunch restaurant, The Pantry, turned down the lights to become the sophisticated French restaurant Le Pantre by night. And Chef Nardane of Touch of Magic Ballroom who, in his 6,200-square foot ballroom, served cheesecakes inspired by Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, and envisioned an exclusive private membership club with frequent celebrity entertainment. And Steve Novak of Beaver's Family Restaurant, who when Marilyn visited his establishment, spoke of reviving his beaver act, complete with costume, for birthday parties.
And you will understand why the opening of an Olive Garden might be earnestly anticipated as an exciting and much welcome event.
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In an interview with BuzzFeed News on Friday, Hagerty remembered how Bourdain “spoke up for me at a time when people all over the country were making great fun of the column I write”.
“To have a man of his stature rise up and befriend me,” she said, “it meant a lot to me.”
Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:06 pm to Crow Pie
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I have a very nice matted, framed, signed and numbered (128/425) poster from the BBCF from the last time I was there...in 1995
You can probably get a new one this May.
https://bbcrawfest.com/
Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:06 pm to Trevaylin
Was this the show they did the Boucherie? If so, after he shot the pig and they boiled and shaved it, he produced one of the best lines ever on television.
This post was edited on 2/1/26 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:13 pm to Hetfield
His opiate abuse says, “Hey!”
I love his works, but he had demons. As I’ve gotten older, I realize all of the people the media wants us to envy are just stupid little trained puppets with deplorable lifestyles.
I love his works, but he had demons. As I’ve gotten older, I realize all of the people the media wants us to envy are just stupid little trained puppets with deplorable lifestyles.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:13 pm to Btrtigerfan
He killed himself because if opiates? TiL
Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:34 pm to contraryman
that was the show he shot the pig. a very big pig
Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:38 pm to Trevaylin
Very underrated is his show "The Layover." 24 hours of food and culture, you can book that trip to Montreal, or Paris, or any other location when a cheap trip pops up.
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