Subject: Anthony Bourdain

• Anthony Bourdain on Illegal Immigrant Labor in U.S. Kitchens

  December 19, 2007

• Five Worst Hangovers In The Movies

  The holidays are upon us, and whether you're dealing with 8-hour layovers at O'Hare or sleeping on your aunt's rollout bed with the bar that lays right across your sacroiliac joint or "entertaining" your brother and his brood of monstrous offspring, chances are you're going to drink. A lot. To help get you through those inevitable mornings after, here are some of our favorite memorable movie hangovers.5. Bad Santa (2003) This unquiet interlude pretty well sums up all of Billy Bob Thornton's rec

  December 26, 2008

• Follow Friday for Foodies

  The group collective on Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging and social networking platform, has developed a recent tradition called Follow Friday.  Follow Friday is part circle jerk, part honest and helpful advice from your Twitter friends on who to follow if you're new or simply looking to expand your circle of friends and acquaintances.  Every Friday, those who participate in the weekly routine send out a Tweet or two with suggestions of influential, interestin

  February 13, 2009

• Feast Is Bloody Brilliant

  November 20, 2008

• Tornado Burgers, New Year's Play, Anthony Bourdain

  January 10, 2008

• Anthony Bourdain, Illegal Immigrants and Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen

  January 3, 2008

• Illegal Immigrants in the Restaurant Industry

  December 20, 2007

• Sushi Jin

  September 27, 2007

• No Reservations

  No Reservations is sweet and savory fare. Without the foam

  July 26, 2007

• Las Fabulosas Taco Trucks

  March 15, 2007

• Bird with a Buzz

  Get your chicken spiked with Szechuan peppercorns and do some tongue tripping

  July 13, 2006

• Letters

  July 14, 2005

• Chefs Rule!

  If you can't stand the sight of lopped-off digits and the smell of your own flesh burning, get out of the kitchen

  July 7, 2005

• The Fido Solution

  The ultimate answer to too many strays, cash-strapped budgets, animal shelter abuses and starving people

  February 3, 2005

• Mussels In

  Anthony Bordain insults and cajoles his newest kitchen recruit: you

  November 11, 2004

• Dancing Delicacies

  Saffron's delicacy pie -- made with lamb livers, sweetbreads and mountain oysters -- is divine

  November 4, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  May 29, 2003

• Fox Bids Adieu

  Chef Tom Williams must give up his restaurant to save his health

  April 11, 2002

• Not So Clear Cut

  June 18, 2009

• The Foie Gras Problem

  Photo by J.C. ReidI love foie gras. Is that bad? Foie gras is the fattened liver of a goose or duck. The fattening is brought about through the technique of gavage, or force-feeding the animal, in this case with corn. The resulting food product is a true delicacy which has a rich, meaty/salty flavor and the consistency of butter. Some people say the production of foie gras is unethical and immoral. PETA and the Humane Society of United States, among others, contend that the production of foie

  June 25, 2009

• Bourdain Is Back

  No Reservations is back. The ever-loquacious Anthony Bourdain visited Chile, skipping from Santiago to wine country, the coast and Patagonia, sampling food, waxing poetic and keeping it real the entire time. Here is a recap of the delicious Chilean cuisine and Bourdain-isms from last night's episode: Bourdain began his belly-busting at Fuente Alemana, a restaurant reflecting the German influence in Chile, where he was able to enjoy the "heaping pile of pork and avocado" known as the lomito.

  July 14, 2009

• This Week's No Reservations

  In this week's episode of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain traveled to Melbourne, Australia. Despite Crocodile Dundee stereotypes of Australia, Melbourne is actually a thriving cultural capital with ethnically diverse cuisines - "like San Francisco, but without the fog." Surprisingly, it was Bourdain's tour guides who had the most "-isms" this week, and we've decided to share those too. Tony first visited the Queen Vic Market, a huge vegetable and meat market that locals prefer to supermarket

  July 21, 2009

• This Week In Deliciousness

  Ray's Franks' Freddy Krueger will haunt your dreams. But in a good way. Welcome back to the weekly round-up here at Eating Our Words, where we have gravy on tap. To start off with, Mike Giglio out-spent Robb Walsh $13 to $7, because Mike is a fancy man of top-shelf tastes. He seemed impressed by the food, ambience, and air conditioning at Fadi's Mediterranean Grill, but not as impressed as Robb was with his bowl of "Houston's best noodles" from Tan Tan. Sarah Rufka took in the sad state o

  July 24, 2009

• This Week's No Reservations: Rust Belt

  Photo by CaDeltaFotoBaltimore's skyline: Much nicer than one would anticipate​This week Anthony Bourdain headed to Baltimore, Buffalo and Detroit, or, as he called them, "fucked up cities I kinda love." The episode was light on snark and heavy on pathos and snowscapes of abandoned structures. For some much-needed comic relief, Bourdain invited along his friend Zamir, the hard-drinking Russian Sancho Panza to Bourdain's grizzled New York Don Quijote. Baltimore Bourdain said he was drawn t

  July 28, 2009

• This Week's No Reservations: Street Food

  Photo by BOMBMANWhat we wouldn't give for this kind of street food in Houston...​This week's "Street Food" episode of No Reservations was kind of phoned in. The only new footage was of Anthony Bourdain wandering around New York City eating a hot dog and pondering aloud -- the other scenes were cut from previous episodes. Rather than being presented regionally, the food was divided into five categories. Since jokes are only funny once, instead of recapping we'll review the categories and tr

  August 4, 2009

• No Reservations: San Francisco

  Photo by Preston CovillaudOutside Pirate Cat Radio in San Francisco​Feeling even more antagonistic than usual, Anthony Bourdain toured San Francisco in this week's episode of No Reservations. He brought the full power of his disdain to the city's organic, local and vegan food by not sampling a bite of it. Finding the city to be a place of contradictions, of both lentils with seitan and martinis with steak, Tony stuck to the martinis. Bourdain first visits a place whose existence depends

  August 11, 2009

• No Reservations: Thailand

  When Anthony Bourdain and his crew visited Thailand in April, Bangkok was in political upheaval. This week's episode of No Reservations opened with flickering images of soldiers, protesters and smoke, with Bourdain admitting, "I don't know what to say about Thailand. I don't know how to make sense of what we saw here." What followed was an hour of great television that didn't just capture this tense moment in the country's political history but also the unbelievable day-to-day moments that ma

  August 18, 2009

• No Reservations: Montana

  Photo by gaby53mt​Usually Anthony Bourdain is a hedonist. He indulges in food, alcohol and not a few off-color sex jokes, no matter what city or what audience. But this week while visiting Montana, he exits out of the fast lane. Maybe it's the mountains, but in the first 20 minutes of the episode he eats only once and spends most of his time discussing art, fishing and life with painter Russell Chatham and author Jim Harrison, who wrote Legends of the Fall. First, Tony visits cattle-ran

  August 25, 2009

• No Reservations: Burning Questions

  Photo by paloma.clTony! Tony! Who are you wearing tonight?​Anthony Bourdain is a celebrity. As such, America wants to know: What brand of jeans does he wear? What does he order at Starbucks (the Uzbek version)? On this week's episode of No Reservations, viewers got to submit questions online and Tony answered ten of them with some old clips, deleted scenes and the snarky narration that has made this crotchety, yet rock n' roll, old man so famous. Have you ever gotten sick from food you'v

  September 1, 2009

• No Reservations: Outer Boroughs

  Photo by duluoz_cats​Regretting having spent almost his entire life in Manhattan with nary a trip to the four outer boroughs, Anthony Bourdain took on the robust culinary scenes of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island in this week's episode of No Reservations. It seemed like a familiar problem, reminding me of what goes on in our town. Certain Houstonians unjustly malign everything outside the 610 Loop. If Bourdain found something to eat in Staten Island, we can certainly find som

  September 8, 2009

• No Reservations: Sardinia

  When I was growing up, my family went to Macaroni Grill for food from Europe's boot-shaped nation. It wasn't until a few years ago that I realized that maybe I'd never had Italian food. Watching the last episode of this season's No Reservations, in which Anthony Bourdain travels to Sardinia, I felt some sadness that I never had eaten, and probably never would eat, what he was eating. Where but in Sardinia could you find these things? Bottarga Salty, fishy and hearty, bottarga pasta is on

  September 15, 2009