September 11, 2007

Joe Pytka, Action Figure.

Joe Pytka. Bastide owner. Commercial director. Action figure.

I think there should be a whole line of restaurant action figures. Pull the string in Gordon Ramsey's back and hear one of eight profane hissy fits! Choose a cloche for Alice Waters! Take along Anthony Bourdain as your very own drinking buddy!

March 28, 2007

Why I Love Anthony Bourdain

Over at Ruhlman.com (blog of cookbook author/food writer Michael Ruhlman), Anthony Bourdain wrote a brilliant and acidic guest post about the James Beard Awards' brain-dead decision to hold the ceremony at the Lincoln Center -- where, you may have noticed, THERE ARE NO KITCHENS. What an honor to be a cook at this august event, where you'll get the opportunity to impress the culinary world's finest while hunched over a propane burner! 

However, Bourdain saved the best for last, describing his interaction with a woman who I presume is current James Beard Foundation head Susan Ungaro, formerly editor of Family Circle:

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