Anthony Bourdain calls Paula Deen ‘the worst, most dangerous person to America’
Anthony Bourdain is happy to smack down celebrity food personalities. CREDIT: AP
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Anthony Bourdain has never been shy about his opinions. Just read his book “Kitchen Confidential” or listen to him on his Travel Channel show “No Reservations.”
In the current print edition of TV Guide magazine, he also sounds off on various celebrity chefs, including Savannah’s own Paula Deen, whose buttery blood might boil if she read this:
“The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. She revels in unholy connections with evil corporations and she’s proud of the fact that her food is f–king bad for you [...] plus, her food sucks.”
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mrperk
August 20th, 2011
3:38 pm
Not all of us have the option of traveling the world and eating gourmet meals paid for by a tv network. The 4 food network persons mentioned cook for real people on real budgets. There will be no need to make a reservation to watch his show.
indigo
August 20th, 2011
3:44 pm
It is sad to me that so many folks can’t express their opinion about the merits of Paula Deen’s food without making disparaging remarks about her and her customers. Truth to tell, I probably would not be impressed with her restaurant, but I probably will never know since it would be low on my list of places to try in Savannah. Still, a whole lot of folks get pleasure from her personality and enjoy her food. What’s wrong with that? Different strokes for different folks. There is a lack of civility here, perhaps due to the anonymous nature of online comments. But, hey, why should food comments be any different than the blog trash you get on political and sports issues/
Jrock
August 20th, 2011
6:15 pm
Evil Corporations?? Really??? doesnt Anthony know the new libtard focus is on the “evil millionaires, billionaires and Corporate Jets”. You gotta keep up with those talking points
The Baroness
August 20th, 2011
7:09 pm
@Hook ‘em 83: You are my hero!
g$
August 20th, 2011
7:14 pm
bourdain is the man!
bisnono
August 20th, 2011
7:28 pm
I agree with Anthony Bourdain whole-heartedly. People who think Paula Deen’s food is fit for humans to eat must just feel more at-home eating from a trough, errrrr, I mean buffet. Plus every photo of the woman is airbrushed to high heaven – does anyone even know what the real Paula Deen looks like without the outdated big hair, impossibly perfect complexion, and teeth so white they must glow in the dark? Scary!
Steve - B.
August 20th, 2011
7:47 pm
Pretty funny a chain smoker lecturing someone on unhealthy food.
D
August 20th, 2011
8:18 pm
Paula Deen sure has white teeth. Are they real?
Another Former Savannahian
August 20th, 2011
8:42 pm
I must agree with Former Savannahian-I too believe that if you truly want real southern cooking Mrs. Wilkes is the way to go. Please try her cooking all of you Paula Deen fans-then let us hear back from you!
AYFKM
August 20th, 2011
8:53 pm
Another reason NOT to watch this guy …sad.
Martin
August 20th, 2011
10:17 pm
What a DONKEY. The “worst most dangerous person to America” is the fellow DONKEY that Bourdain
helped elect president. If I do not like Paula’s food I do not have to eat it or use her recipes. I WISH I had that choice with Obama’s recipes to change this country!!!!!!!!!!
Susy19
August 21st, 2011
1:20 pm
This is one of the funniest conversation threads I’ve ever seen! I lived in GA for many years and it STILL amazes me that there are some southerners who frequently and openly disdain the north as if the civil war happened last week (not to even mention the “liberal” political references). Hey guys, the NORTH isn’t thinking about you so stop acting like the crazy stalking ex-girlfriend who still talks about her ex to the few friends who’ll still listen even though he’s been married for years and he and his wifes 1st child is about to go to college….it’s just sad now.
Anthony Bourdain owns a french restaurant, CLASSICLY and ORIGINALLY known for it’s amazingly high caloric dishes and ample use of fats and butter so REALLY, DUDE? Paula Deen, Sandra Lee and the others appeal to a set of home cooks only 1 generation from Hungry Man Dinners and Spam and Cracker appetizers so how but we cut them some slack.
Sometimes you want fine dining with a cheese plate and wine pairings but sometimes you just want a Krispy Kreme cheese burger (though, I can’t really think of when that would be, lol). Whats lovely is there’s room for them all and that Americans are actually having a dialog about food when I thought we were doomed to strip mall takeout and packaged dinner. FUN STUFF!!
BG
August 22nd, 2011
7:09 am
I’d like to take a poll… for those of you that voted for either team, how much do weigh, how tall are you, and if you know it, what is your BMI. I just have a theory I’d like to informally prove, that’s all.
A. Margie
August 22nd, 2011
12:15 pm
Oh come on people….. come on Anthony…. Paula Deen is a Character! You must use your own common sense in cooking. If she wants to have her cholesterol off the chart, then let her. But we all should be responsible for ourselves. When I cook her recipes I do not copy exactly as she does on her show and my cooking is great! And Anthony, Shame on you! Have you given up your 3 pack a day smoking habit?? If so …. BRAVO ! You have smoked for double the years that Paula has been a celebrity and I would not want to have your Lungs!!!!!! Paula you go girl. Slab that butter on and I’ll still interpret your recipes the way I want them to be.
Rosalie Romo
August 22nd, 2011
12:34 pm
Anthony, Oh Anthony. The things you said about other cooks may be true in the health sense but a bad PR move. When I first saw you on Television I did not like you. You only grew on me because of you’re honesty and my extreme love for food, With that said I’m not a large person. The point is choice, we chose to eat good or bad, but cooking is an art form based on what tastes good to the pallet, others are an art of healthy choices aligned with appealing flavor. I understand what it is like to have no filter when conversing, but with a little wisdom trial and error we learn to say things that we mean but with a more subtle approach. When pointing fingers try to remember you have been seen on television being a lush of sorts, is that not also unhealthy to you’re body, or a bad influence to america? Or how about the time you ate a marijuana pizza in another country? when you point fingers you have some pointing at you as well. I still will watch you’re channel occasionally but try to be nice to your’e camaraderie’s.
tina
August 22nd, 2011
5:10 pm
Not only does Paula Deen keep cardiologists employed. Might I add respiratory therapist, nurses, surgeons, physical therapist…..the list goes long. heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, hypertension……are all a result from eating all that garbage she cooks on tv. ugh!!!
Munchma Quchi
September 1st, 2011
11:00 am
Paula Deen is a fat cow who — if she is lucky — will be slaughtered (as she has already been fattened) and Bourdain should — after cutting all the fat off that pathetic buttery carcass of hers — serve her up to homeless people who can then crap her out in the streets. . . where she should have stayed. FAT COW!!! LOVE YOU ANTHONY!!! KEEP HATING!!!
zoomthru
September 2nd, 2011
8:00 pm
Wow, this is a funny blog spot. I enjoyed reading so many genius commentary. I’m not a fan of either teams. All Bourdain ever does is criticize everything, as if he’s so above and beyond it all. Has he taken a good look at himself lately? He’s a left-back, from the “still wanting to be cool daze” where he was probably never cool, that why he’s still trying so hard to be that. But the worse is, his show’s passe production of wanting to be “the hip rocker dude”, which always turns out to be a sorry excuse for creativity. If Bourdain would just stick to the food part, Asian food being the best ones – than maybe he’d be tolerable to watch – but most of the time he’s focused on finding and having the next drink – But at least he’s educated, and I couldn’t agree more with him on calling Deen out. She is the epitome of gluttony from every angle as far as I’m concerned. From what she eats, cooks, promotes, endorses (A ham corporation that has really bad dyes & additives in its product) where ever she can get her dirty gorged fingers on (and yes, I have also seen her lick her fingers and then touch food she was serving – it’s gross). But that’s what you get growing up as TPWT, never knowing any better, or the difference. I would never eat at any of her restaurants, or buy her books. One because I would never consider her a chef with all that lard loaded food she dishes out to you under the guise of a smile and chuckle; Two because I would never support a greedy money making machine monster mama, that doesn’t care one ioda about the health and welfare of her viewers and restaurant goers (the folk that support her). She’s happily poisoning the innocents and making money off all the ignorants; And thirdly, now she’s milking the people through her sons, constantly having them on her shows, plugging them, as well as probably trying to get them their own show – neither one of them qualified to be chefs either (their food sucks, very amateurish). What I’m confused about is…why is food network supporting this nepotism, or calling it the Paula Deen show then??? Food Network, is going down the tubes: Rachele Ray, “let’s just throw anything and everything into the pot” show; Sandra Lee, should just stick with her crazy tablescapes, so she could go back to just being on the informercial channels; Guy, God bless him – his food isn’t there, but he’s is a comedic genius. I watch the Food Channel more and more.
I KNOW EVIL COMPANYS
September 5th, 2011
2:41 pm
I work for one of those evil companys she represents. Mr. Bourdain is right, she doesn’t care. I sent her a message on facebook about the wrong doing that was going on at this company, and she never responded, which proved to me she doesn’t give a damn about the ordinary hard working american people.