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What unique experiences does Anthony Bourdain share about his travels?
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My guest tonight, he's a chef and author. His show for the Travel Channel is called No Reservations.
The people here in Mapuche, you know, whenever they have a hangover, they always come for plans. Either we take the medium ones or the big ones. Normally they open better than the small ones.
All right, so you generally buy your fish here. You go back here and you pick a restaurant. We choose a place, we sit there, and then they cook it for us.
Done.
I gotta get out more. Please welcome Anthony Bourdain. Nice to see you. We love your show. It's a great show. Here's what I have decided. Your job is what people would do if they didn't have to work. It's the greatest job. You travel around the world, America and all over, Engaging with the local culture, eating the local food.
It's amazing. I have the best job in the world. There's no doubt about it. How often are you on the road? About 220 days a year, something like that. So I'm away from home a lot. But I decide where we go. I make the show the way me and my friends want to make it. The network interferes near to not at all. So I can hardly complain about the boss.
Is there a place you haven't been to that was too difficult to get to? The arrangements couldn't be made? Was there a disappointment?
I dreamed for a long time. We've tried year after year to do a... I'm obsessed with Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness. Yes, yes. And I see myself every year going up the river, tracing the Marla's trip up to Kurtz in the Congo. Uh-huh. There have been some health and safety concerns that have prevented that from happening.
I can just see the shot, you rising up from the river, having a man. So nothing in, let's say, war-torn regions.
Well, we had a taste of that in 2006. We were shooting what was supposed to be a happy food show in Beirut and ended up getting evacuated by the Marines. We've certainly shot at some places where anything resembling infrastructure is, you know, not really there.
It's impressive. Some of the places you go to, some of the food you eat, it's impressive. I have gotten diarrhea from watching your show. I was struck down recently with a terrible... I was watching the Mozambique preview and just got hit just bad. Just couldn't leave the house for two days.
We kind of joke on the show that, you know, if there's not at least a 50% chance of diarrhea when you eat something, it's almost not worth eating.
How does David Chang view the cultural history of food?
It really isn't.
Do you have, like, are there certain precautions that you take when you go into these areas, like shots and... Yeah, I mean, we've had the full spectrum there, but honestly, we avoid the hotel breakfast buffet. That thing is lethal. Would you say that even in the States? I would say even that, you know, that sort of forlorn, the shiny ham, the congealed eggs, the, you know, the little, no, that stuff is a, that's a vector. That's not a meal.
The display of bacon always, because I'm a huge fan of bacon. Yeah. But once it gets, somehow when it starts to layer and get on top of itself, in the crevices lives baconella or whatever it is.
Yeah, if it's more jerky-like than bacon-like, you probably shouldn't be, yeah.
Have you been struck by the ability of food to bring cultures together everywhere you've gone?
Have you ever been to a place where food was not important to the culture, where it was... It's a bad place, you know, where people are immune to the joys of eating. And that has nothing to do with budget. Dependably, the best food, the best times we've had on the road are often in very poor countries where they have very little to work with and they do a lot with it. Countries that just don't pay attention to food at all. It's like someone who says to you, I'm not interested in food. Really not interested. It's like them saying, I don't like, you know, music. Right. And I'm not particularly interested in sex either. You know, it's just not a... Not a fan of joy. I kind of got that from the first two.
Right, right, right. Hate joy. Yeah. Colors don't do it for me.
Yeah. Not interested.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What unique experiences does Anthony Bourdain share about his travels?
0:01–3:12
2
How does David Chang view the cultural history of food?
3:12–5:48
3
What role does food play in disaster relief according to José Andrés?
5:48–8:32
4
What insights does Anne Burrell provide about cooking competitions?
8:32–12:12
5
How does Kwame Onwuachi reflect on his journey from gang life to culinary success?
12:12–14:51
6
What challenges does Kwame Onwuachi discuss regarding his upbringing?
14:51–17:47
7
How does food intersect with cultural identity in the discussions?
17:47–20:35
8
What messages does Kwame Onwuachi hope to convey through his memoir?
20:35–30:59
Speakers
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