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Default Favorite Cable TV Chef - Bourdain OR Zimmern?

On 2010-04-23, Virginia Tadrzynski > wrote:

> without ever killing another animal for food, just give him a pair of
> gelding tools.


lol....

They both tend to get repetitious in that aspect. Tony's show always
seem to wind down to the commom denominator of street food
--preferably swine-- eaten while surrounded by everyday local Joe's
while drinking beer. What I do enjoy about Tony is he is very well
read and is always throwing out literary references. This, no doubt,
being why he's a pretty good writer, too.

I'll give Zimmern the nod for honesty. He's the only travel show host
I've ever seen openly admit he still can't choke down a durian. I've
never had durian, myself, but was on a hazmat team that responded to
what at first appeared to be a toxic gas leak that cleared the rather
large manufacturing floor of a major Silicon Valley company. It was
later confirmed someone had warmed up some frozen durian in the lunch
room microwave. Putrid rotting fish is the closest description I can
conjure up.


nb