Anthony Bourdain Talks to TV Guide
Posted by Madeline Miller on Edible TV.
TV Guide recently chatted with Anthony Bourdain about the new season of his Travel Channel show, No Reservations. Keeping with his typical style, Bourdain did not hold back in any way when expressing his opinion. Come on - he wants you to tune in!
Here are a few excerpts from the interview:
TVGuide.com: So did you have a Singapore Sling or two?
Anthony Bourdain: No, absolutely not. Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.
TVGuide.com: Where else do you travel this season?
Bourdain: New Orleans. Berlin. Romania/Transylvania. And Jamaica. The Jamaica show has easily the single scariest, most terrifying scene we’ve ever done. We went caving, or spelunking, at this guano-slicked cavern in the middle of the jungle. It was mind-blowingly frightening.
TVGuide.com: Your uncensored, blunt voice-overs often leave us wondering, “Did he really just say that?” How much grief do you get from the suits at Travel about your narration?
Bourdain: I have to say they’ve been really good. They’ve let stuff sail through that I was frankly surprised by. I’m on TV on the strength of a fairly obnoxious, overtestosteroned, salty book [2000’s Kitchen Confidential]. So nobody expected me to morph into Tyler Florence overnight. They had a pretty good idea what was coming.
TVGuide.com: The last time we interviewed you, you said the three things you don’t travel without are Imodium, your iPod and your cigarettes. Has that changed?
Bourdain: Yeah, I quit smoking about four and a half months ago. I’m a daddy now. I have an 8-month-old daughter and I can’t smoke around her in my apartment. I live on a high floor and I had to go 11 floors down every time I wanted a cigarette. It just became harder to smoke than to quit.
Go check out the full article to hear what Bourdain has to say about Rachael Ray, Emeril Lagasse, and Guy Fieri.
Photo from TV Guide.
