/ck/ - Food & Cooking

sounds like you might just be watching Bourdain

Diners Drive ins and Dives!

I love the episodes where he goes to France and licks every chef's asshole

>>6263858
He pretty much does that everywhere, mostly in Japan though.

I like Zimmern. He used to be a homeless drug addict and now he travels the world and has a tv show. Plus it's fun to watch other people eat gross shit.

Anthony's character is too hard to relate to. He's pretentious and cocky.

>>6263929
I can't stand watching that fat closet fag eat. He sickitates me.

>>6263851

Could someone rec me some good American cooking shows to torrent? There aren't that many cooking shows in the UK

>>6263942
Emeril Live was good if you can find it

>>6263852
Well, MoaC is just produced by him. It's mostly a show with David Chang.

>>6263964
BAM!
I loved him as a kid.

>>6263929
Bourdain is pretty much /ck/ and the best partsof other boards incarnate.

He's too relateable so its scary

>>6263929
>pretentious
Word only used by plebs when faced with a patrician, post discarded.

Bourdain has looked increasingly pissed off and bored with his show over the last few years, I think he only wants to go to specific parts of Asia, anything else is a real fucking arsehole to him

>>6263976
>It's mostly a show with David Chang.
Season 2 focuses on Sean Brock for about half the episodes. They're really good. It's kind of wild to see a fiercely smart Southern chef who grew up as a hillbilly track down almost lost ingredients, then come up with modern recreations of classic Southern flavors.

Not only is it interesting, but it brings home how American regional cooking has been wrecked over the last 60 - 70 years. It isn't just that people don't have the time for more labor intensive dishes. It's also that you can't get the varieties of vegetables and quality of meat those dishes were based upon at a fucking supermarket. So people just stopped cooking those dishes because they didn't "work" anymore.

Like something as simple as buttered white rice. It was once a thing, back when the quality of rice was super high, and people had access to homemade butter. But if you to the supermarket, get some rice and butter, then go home and make it you'll be left wondering why people in the past had such shit taste. Turns out they didn't.

Also the animated bits are pretty good, and Harold McGee is fun to watch.

The first half of season 2 of Mind of a Chef is fucking great television.

>>6264034

>>6264093
assdevestated pleb detected

>>6264094

>>6264141
p l e b

>>6264142
>>6264094

> triggered by words
> calling other people plebs

>>6264093
>>6264141

> le hat meme
> ever


Back to reddit both of you

>>6264058

Bloomfield's part in S2 is pretty dope too. I hate british food but I liked her.

>>6264146
>triggered
Epic

>>6264149
>Bloomfield's part in S2 is pretty dope too.
Agreed. But the camera really loved Brock. And when do you ever get to see a smart hillbilly on TV?

The only chef I find more fun to watch would be Alvin Leung on Masterchef Canada. There's a guy who needs his own show.

>>6264171

I bought Brock's book. Everything looks great but I can't cook any of it to do it justice.

I'm not sure what i was expecting but it's really hard to source stuff in winter in NYC. I might order some of the hoppin john peas and rice from ansom mills but I cringe at spending so much on rice and beans.

>>6263929
Zimmern is devoid of any personality or charme.

>>6264203
>I might order some of the hoppin john peas and rice from ansom mills but I cringe at spending so much on rice and beans.
You live in NYC. If you can drop big dollars to live in a shitty apartment why not drop big dollars on rice and beans?

I feel your pain, though. I live in Bklyn, and my wife has come close to ordering some of that rice a couple times. Sooner or later we'll get some.

And Northeast winter is a bitch. I can't tell you how many cabbages and carrots I've gone through so far, and ramps are still two months away. But in spite of a short season we get some good stuff. Remember how good the tree fruits were last year? Best pears in years. I don't know about you, but I've got a pretty good CSA, so when the season finally gets here I'll be doing pretty fucking well.

>>6264260

I'm up in washington heights so actually I have a fairly nice apartment for the price (on NYC terms). I cancelled my winter farmshare because i was so sick of fucking cabbage and squash. However, pears and apples were fucking unreal for sure.

I'm re-reading this cornbread recipe and i might just give it a shot. Do you know any purveyors of this stuff in the city?

>>6264291
>Do you know any purveyors of this stuff in the city?
For high end meats I used Heritage Meats in the Essex Street Market, but they're closing now. Might be worth a call to see if they're still open. They would carry bacon at the level of what Brock would use. And there's a chance Saxelby Cheesemonger (in the same building) would have some real buttermilk. But call first, because the LES is at least an hour train ride away from you.

Can't help you source the corn. Sure as fuck could if you were making tortillas, though.

>>6263853
Don't. Even. Start.

>>6263929
>He used to be a homeless drug addict
I never heard that before. Maybe that's why he will eat pretty much anything.

>>6264012
He is pretty much the foundation of Food Network.

>>6264238
He's always friendly, congenial and interested in the cultures he's situated in

Explain

>>6263929
Andrew seems like someone I could have a beer with.

Tony would probably throw out a snarky comment about how the beer I ordered was pleb tier because it's not some top shelf imported crap.

>>6264397
>Tony would probably throw out a snarky comment about how the beer I ordered was pleb tier because it's not some top shelf imported crap.
He's right tho

>>6264397
>Tony would probably throw out a snarky comment about how the beer I ordered was pleb tier because it's not some top shelf imported crap.

How so? How many of his programs have you seen? He's usually the happiest sitting in some 3rd world shack drinking the local rotgut hooch and eating street food.

>>6264397
>Tony would probably throw out a snarky comment about how the beer I ordered was pleb tier because it's not some top shelf imported crap.
I doubt it. Tony loves delicious trash, and he's a drunk. He's half French and a chef, so he'd be fussy about wine, but beer? Unlikely. I'm sure no matter what beer you ordered he's gotten drunk on worse in Asia.

>>6264397
I think Zimmer mentioned in an episode that he doesn't drink at all because he's a recovered alcoholic. Meanwhile, Bourdain is perpetually drunk; if you can't drink with him it's probably because he would drink your beer too.

>>6263942
Do you want to learn or be entertained?
If you want to learn something (with some entertainment)
Emeril Live
Chuck's day off
Dolce Vita
Pioneer Woman
Good Eats
should get you started

>>6264331

Alright, kopped red peas, carolina gold rice, 2 packages of cornmeal and oats.

Gonna make his hoppin john and cornbread and his simple roasted chicken

>>6263929

I feel like the people in this picture need speech bubbles with offensive things in them.

>>6264039

Same places are a goddamn nightmare not just because of the food but the people as well.

For that episode Australia episode Zimmern did not look happy fucking around with those abos. That however is another story.

>>6264238
because he doesn't drink

>>6264380
he's a robot. fake. overly joyous and fake

Bourdain.. now there is some honesty and personality not to mention some fuckin drunken good times.

>>6264474
>Emeril Live
/lgbt/ board is over there dude. thank you for stopping by

>Outta my way non seafood eating shits

>>6263851
No Reservations was the best show he did, Parts Unknown is worse but still good. the Layover is generally not great.

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>>6264397
I've seen enough Bourdain to know he isn't elitist about beer. He's even written about beer snobbery, and how he's perfectly happy drinking a PBR while grilling outside on a hot day.

>>6264058
i couldn't have said it better myself

>>6264149
>pic related

>>6264608
do a cook along!

>>6264346

he's been plenty open about it

I watch iron chef (yes, even iron chef america), america's test kitchen, any of bourdain's or zimmern's shit (aside from the current zimmern series where he only narrates), booze traveler, guilty pleasures top chef and masterchef, and I'll occasionally watch almost anything if I'm exhausted and desperate to watch anything while I flop on the couch with the exception of restaurant stakeout and a few other exceptionally horrible shows

I've watched a bunch of others in the years past, these are just what I watch or have watched semi recently

>>6265576
How does noone else love this man?
Enthusiastic and optimistic.

Mexico: One Plate at a Time is good, and so is Simply Ming. Any of Jacques Pepin's stuff is also worth watching.

>>6264058
THIS
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torrents are easy to find and well seeded

i like both Bourdain and Zimmern. there's always someone talking bad about Bourdain but he's laid back and actually has opinions of his own rather than someone like Zimmern who is nice and congenial at all times which is not bad at all.

fucking hell i love most of the hosts on the Travel Channel because i vicariously watch most of the shows on it religiously. i need to go torrent Booze Traveler and Layover episodes. those imo are the best.