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  • What I saw somewhat recently #90: January 6, 2022

    At a recent distillery tasting Wow, 90 of these. I hope at or before 100 I go back through them all and pull forward some of my favorites. I hope most of these links still exist! You may see less of these types of posts since I’ve left social media behind and I think I’ll…

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  • Bourdain’s voice

    I still miss Anthony Bourdain very much. See this and this. I was somewhat excited to learn that a documentary about him was being made. The only thing that kept me from full-on excitement was that I still haven’t been able to bring myself to rewatch all of his episodes. And I’ve been wanting to…

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  • Don’t die before reading this

    Anthony Bourdain, in 1999, writing for The New Yorker: I’ve been a chef in New York for more than ten years, and, for the decade before that, a dishwasher, a prep drone, a line cook, and a sous-chef. I came into the business when cooks still smoked on the line and wore headbands. A few…

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  • Bourdain on creative control

    Anthony Bourdain, remarking on the last season of my favorite travel show: Seven new episodes of NO RESERVATIONS left—interspersed, I’m afraid, by three (count them, THREE) shows made up of “repurposed” material—aka clip shows. Seven shows seemed like enough to me. Especially since knowing they were to be our last, we put our heart and soul…

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  • I blame Crocodile Dundee

    Make no mistake. No Reservations is a show primarily about food. That doesn’t mean that every episode is only about food or that the entire length of the program is centered around food. Sometimes an episode focuses more on the people, culture, history, geography, or various other aspects of a location – instead of only…

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