New season of "No Reservations"

[smiler grogan]

So,
I keep seeing commercials for the upcoming season of the show and i have an observation. I have yet to see Tony B. around food in fact the commercials make the show look more like "Wild Boys" than a show primarily about food. i guess after a few seasons they have to keep looking for reasons to send Tony somewhere, or they are trying to attract new listeners that aren't so into food.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Bourdain and Ramsay take up lots of time with their good show, Im looking forward to some new No Res Eps

[NortonRules]

It's the Travel Channel, not the Food Network.

[NortonRules]

Also, the commercials you see aren't solely from the new season. They're clips from past shows as well.

[hedges]

Bourdain rules, I can't wait. After reading "Kitchen Confidential" I'm a big fan. Love his stuff on TV.

[Freakshow]

I think the food part is just assumed. They might be tyring to show it's more than just a food show.

Plus he's uaually getting a taco from a roadside cart at 2 in the morning. Places tourist would walk by while clutching their wallets from fear. I don't think that makes the best commericals.

[Tallman388]

They definitely make a point of Bourdain finding food in out of the way places, rather than typical spots. I'm looking forward to the new season.

[Chigworthy]

Eating a raw seal carcass with Innuits on their kitchen floor has something to do with food.

[badorties]

the show has been and will always be about food, and the road less traveled

can't wait for the new season (and for them to repeat some of the older european episodes)

i even love les halles, spent new year's eve there ... viva les steak frites

[Chigworthy]

I've had my eye on that Les Halles cookbook for some time. It's packed with recipes for low-key, high quality classics.

[jetdog]

Shit. I can't insert the direct link for some reason...
anyway check out the commonwealth club podcast (from San Francisco) either from their homepage (http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/?filter=audio&sort=releasedate) or from iTunes,
I fuckin love this guy (although his verbal crutch, "...ya know..." gets on my nerves).

[smiler grogan]

I did see the seal carcass commercial over the weekend. I love the show, it was just an observation about the commercials.

[Chigworthy]

I saw that atrocious squish Andrew Zimmern eating whale blubber, and it blended in with his neck.

[smiler grogan]

Zimmerman feels like a one trick pony with his wacky I'll eat anything schtick.
he did do a cool brooklyn episode though.

[Freakshow]

Zimmern did a one-off show all over Asia 3 or 4 years ago (they just replayed it over the weekend). I think that predates no reservations by a bit. It funny to see him eat beating frog hearts, and then choke on the Durien.

[badorties]

I've had my eye on that Les Halles cookbook for some time. It's packed with recipes for low-key, high quality classics.

great, tasty book ... i bought it for my wife

she used to work across the street from les halles, and we would go there when we started dating ... years later, i heard him on ron & fez and started to watch the show ( (and DVR every episode) ... i inhaled 'no reservations,' and became a really big fan

it's great instance of serendepity ...

as for zimmerman, his show and act is very tired ... but for the ceviche he promoted at the red hook ball field was transcendental

[Chigworthy]

Zimmern did a one-off show all over Asia 3 or 4 years ago (they just replayed it over the weekend). I think that predates no reservations by a bit. It funny to see him eat beating frog hearts, and then choke on the Durien.

But Bourdain did A Cook's Tour in 2001-2002, eating durian and beating cobra hearts and all other sorts of shit, so a big face to Zimmern. Bourdain makes the "shock cuisine" stuff interesting and somewhat palatable, while Zimmern is just annoying, corny, and completely unappetizing to watch. Fuck him, I say.

[jetdog]

Last nights show wasn't bad, not great, but not bad.
It was completely about food this time, almost nothing else.
I want bone soup and chilli crab so bad.

[Cleophus James]

this is the only show I DVR

[EddieMoscone]

I got on board late with this show, maybe started watching about a year ago after my friend lent me Kitchen Confidential. I DVR all episodes and burn to DVD the ones about places I think there is even a remote chance I'll get to in my lifetime.

Food Network has even been playing some of the Cook's Tour episodes lately to try and capitalize on Bourdain's popularity.

[Chigworthy]

The A Cook's Tour book was a fun read, with stuff they couldn't put on the show (hash in Morrocco). Anyone who liked Kitchen Confidential would dig it. My wife got me "The Nasty Bits" for Christmas, but I haven't started it yet.

[hammersavage]

reading 'the nasty bits' now. its alright. definitely no kitchen confidential.

[hammersavage]

He's in the rust belt tonight. Baltimore, Buffalo and Cleveland. Joined by Snoop from The Wire in B'more.

[deliciousV]

I DVR'd the first episode of this new season, as I do all of them, and I'm watching. I'm still a fan of the show, which from the dramatic fall off to this thread I'm gonna assume I'm alone, but after watching his new show "The Layover" this past winter, I don't know why they're bothering with this one now. The Layover was fun, drunken, foul, Bourdain. This show feels Like it should be on the History channel.

[Dan 'Hampton]

Beginning of last season was a downer, it rebounded as always.