No Reservations - Anthony Bourdain
Posted: July 24th, 2007, 11:36 am
Speaking of Exotic, perhaps my favorite television show this summer is Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations on the Travel Channel. If you haven't watched this show, MY GOD, you're in for a treat. It normally comes on Monday nights about 10PM here in the boro, and make sure your belly is full, or you'll be starving after watching it.
Talk about dream jobs, this guy gets to travel to remote, unique places and share their culture with his viewers via exotic foods. It's humanity at it's best, and Tony is somebody you fall in love with almost immediately. In a culture of water-bottles, low-carbs, and healthy living- Mr Bourdain comes across as a likeable, even lovable contrast.
On no reservations, Tony is often cussing like a sailor, smoking like a 30s movie, and quite honestly making that same subtext verbal that most of us are thinking in our heads. It's reasons like this, that makes him unique, almost sexy.
It's really the lack of "Hollywood" image that makes the show interesting to watch. As a viewer you actually trust what he's saying. It was after watching an episode of No Reservations, and Anthony's overwhelming response to Guinness beer, that I myself had to try it. I was hooked.
No I probably will never get a chance to eat Fried Rhino Stomach, or Moose Eyes, or whatever weird and national food he find in exotic locations around the world where he and his camera crew are helicopter lifted in to, but I can watch this Emmy Nominated show in lieu of "Real Life 17" on MTV. Yes there might not be much on TV this summer, but Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations gives me the chance to escape reality and visit different parts of the world, see various people, and eat different foods... all with a guy you'd love to; as my grandfather would say, "shoot the (expletive)" with.
That's probably one of my highest level on endorsement. This is quality television.
Talk about dream jobs, this guy gets to travel to remote, unique places and share their culture with his viewers via exotic foods. It's humanity at it's best, and Tony is somebody you fall in love with almost immediately. In a culture of water-bottles, low-carbs, and healthy living- Mr Bourdain comes across as a likeable, even lovable contrast.
On no reservations, Tony is often cussing like a sailor, smoking like a 30s movie, and quite honestly making that same subtext verbal that most of us are thinking in our heads. It's reasons like this, that makes him unique, almost sexy.
It's really the lack of "Hollywood" image that makes the show interesting to watch. As a viewer you actually trust what he's saying. It was after watching an episode of No Reservations, and Anthony's overwhelming response to Guinness beer, that I myself had to try it. I was hooked.
No I probably will never get a chance to eat Fried Rhino Stomach, or Moose Eyes, or whatever weird and national food he find in exotic locations around the world where he and his camera crew are helicopter lifted in to, but I can watch this Emmy Nominated show in lieu of "Real Life 17" on MTV. Yes there might not be much on TV this summer, but Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations gives me the chance to escape reality and visit different parts of the world, see various people, and eat different foods... all with a guy you'd love to; as my grandfather would say, "shoot the (expletive)" with.
That's probably one of my highest level on endorsement. This is quality television.