{"id":792,"date":"2010-06-18T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/06\/anthony-bourdain-on-cool.html"},"modified":"2010-06-18T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:31:17","slug":"anthony-bourdain-on-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/06\/anthony-bourdain-on-cool.html","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Bourdain on cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m addicted to Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations”<\/a> travel food show, which I watch via streaming Netflix. Bourdain is a self-conscious cool guy, and at times, something of a jerk. But he’s compulsively watchable. Though I wish he would trash the food he’s served sometimes, the thing I like most about him is he gets passionate about the sensual qualities of food. Here’s a bit from an enjoyable review of Bourdain’s latest book<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Medium Raw<\/em>, Bourdain’s sequel, takes stock of both the changes in his life and in the culinary world he inhabits. Which are quite a few. Bourdain kicked his heroin habit, got divorced, remarried (spending time in between with a coked-up heiress, some plastic surgery victims and the Gadhafis on an island in the Caribbean). He is now a doting father – and blissfully uncool. The essence of cool is “not giving a f*ck,” he writes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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