/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18338670]

>start reading this
>Bourdain acts as if cooks are the last outlaws of societies, defying norms and being punk rock

[Anonymous No.18338676]

>>18338670
I like him but it’s pretty funny how he thought he was so punk while doing shows for fucking CNN

[Anonymous No.18338677]

>>18338676
I mean he admitted he sold out

[Anonymous No.18338683]

That was always his thing. He acted as though he was a member of the Chili Peppers.

[Anonymous No.18338689]

I hate this fucking aesthetic/subculture/whatever so much.

[Anonymous No.18338692]

>>18338689
It’s the heroin aesthetic made famous in the 90s

[Anonymous No.18338697]

>>18338670
The service industry in general was like that in the 80s and 90s. Still is in certain areas.

[Anonymous No.18338705]

>>18338689
For me it's the exact opposite. I love it, and I long for a time and life like that.

[Anonymous No.18338721]

>>18338670
i do not understand the massive amounts of seething this man generates. it's seriously impressive. i don't even like him, i've only watched one episode of his shows. is it jealousy? he started in a job known for alcoholics and made something of himself? i mean it has to be. there's no other explanation. most of you have to be line cooks at applebees going on 8 years and you have nothing to show for it.

[Anonymous No.18338726]

>>18338692
This and the whole American Psycho Dorsia yuppie thing made hot restaurants a status symbol and place to be.

>>18338721
It's baiting because he got popular for his writing and personality and success breeds contempt.

[Anonymous No.18338729]

>>18338721
I hate that he killed himself because I’ll never get to hang out with him and eat some good food

[Anonymous No.18338758]

>>18338729
you can find and hang out with some guy like him

[Anonymous No.18338765]

>>18338670
>cooks are the last outlaws of societies
well, he's not that far off.
You seen who works in the back house lately?
Dopeheads, fuckups, dipshits that don't fit in anywhere else find a home there.

[Anonymous No.18338876]

>>18338721
he's a phony, a great big phony?

[Anonymous No.18338900]

>>18338765
And there's a reason. It's a hard, stressful job that's very hard on your body, between the heat and the long hours standing and theconsistent cuts/burns etc, and if you work anywhere decent it's essentially a skilled trade, but you would get paid half again as much to go do absolute bottom-of-the-barrel manual labor in construction, and three times as much to ave any other skilled trade, and you'd also make way more money being FOH, so the only people tat do it are people that are really passionate about cooking, or people who really can't make it anywhere else.

[Anonymous No.18338901]

>>18338683
*red hot

[Anonymous No.18338950]

>>18338900
>it's very hard on your body
lmfao

[Anonymous No.18339254]

>>18338670
He was a pretentious twat

[Anonymous No.18339659]

>>18338721
I only got as far as him literally describing oysters as a sexual food and immediately dropped the book.

[Anonymous No.18339764]

>>18338950
hey now, alcoholism is very hard on the body

[Anonymous No.18339800]

>>18338721
>pretends not to be Jewish
>Gets his mother to leverage her job as a NY Times editor to get his book published and promoted
>Gets a TV show
>Is a shit husband and father
>Fires members of his two decade long crew for his new gf who pretends to get raped by Harvey Weinstein so she can relevant
>She cucks him so he offs himself

[Anonymous No.18339807]

heard he did most of his cooking with a spoon

[Anonymous No.18339818]

>>18339254
yeah, but he was good at what he did, and he was a pretentious twat during the appropriate era.

[Anonymous No.18339992]

>>18338670
He hates the aristocracy, man.

[Anonymous No.18340008]

>>18338677
>>18338676
Mad respect for how he killed himself if true.

[Anonymous No.18340031]

yeah. I always find the lionization of chef's a bit weird.

[Anonymous No.18340036]

it was written when weed was cool
can't blame him

[Anonymous No.18340037]

cooking is gay

[Anonymous No.18340039]

>>18338721
They're impressed by him at reddit. You don't have to expose yourself to people who see through him if you don't like it.

[Anonymous No.18340093]

>>18338670
it's a coping mechanism for any profession that pays shit money and tolerates fringe personalities.

[Anonymous No.18340127]

>>18339659
but oysters ARE a sexual food. that isn't some original idea of his. oysters simply look like vaginas. have you not seen a vagina?

[Anonymous No.18340129]

>>18338670
I would have killed myself if I had written such an embarrassing book as well.

[Anonymous No.18340137]

>>18338697
just becuase the service industry has huge drug and alcohol problems doesn't mean its rock 'n roll

[Anonymous No.18340140]

>>18338721
its contrarianism. he's popular and therefore 4chan must hate him because 4channers are cool and edgy.

[Anonymous No.18340187]

>>18340140
Not even close. I hate him because he acts cool and edgy, and I'm embarrassed to remember when I was in high school and thought being cool and edgy was great. It's not. There's no substance to it. It's cringe. This was an adult acting like a dipshit teenager.

[Anonymous No.18340407]

>>18338670
That photo is so fucking insane.
>Ok guuuys, now show me some of your knives, what sort of weapons are my bad boys using?
>Oooooh, what about these long curved ones? They look dangerous, like something a pirate would have.
>Alright boooys, here's what we're gonna doooo.
>We're gonna shoot in front this cement wall outside with graffiti on it and I want you to were these big knives on your hips. They are your arms and the kitchen is your battlefield, you're dangerous, you're rebels, you're a band of swashbucklers and and you're taking no prisoners in this industry.
>Beautiful, guys, it's a wrap.

[Anonymous No.18340428]

>read garbage
>get shocked when it's bad

how could this happen to me

[Anonymous No.18340515]

>>18338670
>>18338689
>chefs are egotistical weirdos
wow you're just now figuring this out?

[Anonymous No.18340667]

>>18340187
>There's no substance to it. It's cringe.
it's clear you haven't read his books, know nothing of his opinion of his own self, know nothing of kitchen work, and don't know anyone in the industry.

You're allowed to not have an opinion on a public figure you know nothing about. Its actually healthier. hating people based on nothing is a waste of your time and energy.

[Anonymous No.18340688]

>>18340667
Hate is admittedly too strong a word. More like disdain. But, no, he deserves disdain. He's a shitty guy admired by shitty people. A Hunter Thompson (another shitty guy admired by shitty people) wannabe.

[Anonymous No.18340760]

>>18340688
Based opinion. This fucking reverence people have for sex, drugs and being an asshole needs to stop real fast.

[Anonymous No.18341554]

>>18338670
how much hair goes in the food?

[Anonymous No.18341911]

>>18338670
every fucking boomer and gen xer ive ever met has tried to convience me that their job is the hardest, that they work the hardest at it, and that what they are doing is very important work. Its a consequence of the social engineering that they were subjected to during their youth.

[Anonymous No.18341920]

Literally cucked to death lmfao

[Anonymous No.18341961]

Im glad he died anyone who makes a restaurant lose a star should kill themselves
A degenerate heroin addict ill piss on his grave one day

[Anonymous No.18341985]

>>18338670
2 pages about cooking.
150 pages about how his chef fucked a someone bride at marriage etc.
Literally.

[Anonymous No.18341996]

The only thing worse than Bourdain is his cult of personality fans who buy into his poser bullshit

[Anonymous No.18342068]

>>18338670

>wow so crazy in the kitchen can't even imagine
>true rockstars, underrated staff
>so cool to underpay people but hey let's shoot H or drink after the 14 hour shift because it's so cool

ngl, I liked no reservations for the food (some really good recommendations that I followed when travelling) but had to skip all the artsy bullshit parts

also if any of the tatted chefs are reading:

you are just cooking food.

[Anonymous No.18342074]

>>18341985
I feel like that story's made up

[Anonymous No.18342204]

I always pictured chefs as chef boyardee. Basically innocent guys who were fat and big hearted (figuratively and literally). It sounds like most of them are like fucking oil rig workers though. Is this real?

[Anonymous No.18342225]

>>18338670
>A reminder that he only ever got a publishing deal in the first place because he is of the tribe...

[Anonymous No.18342312]

>>18338729
Though there were some moments I thought he was kind of full of shit, he didn’t seem that bad of a guy to hang with and eating and drinking in the places he went would be a great time to anybody

[Anonymous No.18342318]

>>18339800
>Jewish
Come on man, you could’ve just saved us all the time (and yours) and just putting this instead

[Anonymous No.18342347]

>>18341996
Oh yeah i can definitely say they’re cringe. I liked Bourdain myself but mainly because it was a travel show rather than about cooking (nor do I recall seeing him attempting to make the food on the show)
It just comes across as too try hard to me

[Anonymous No.18343681]

>>18340428

lol i tried to listen to the audiobook it was very underwhelming and i only used it to fall asleep. i do really like his tv shows tho.

[Anonymous No.18345010]

>>18338692
Aren't you getting Heroine mixed up with Cocaine? Isn't Coke what kitchens/cooks are known for?

[Anonymous No.18345023]

Notes From A Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi doesn't have much of that macho kitchen shit.

David Chang's Eat A Peach gets in to some self-reflection and attempts to improve because he started off as an enormous asshole.

[Anonymous No.18345199]

>>18338670
t. has never worked in a kitchen
A batshit environment breeds batshit people with batshit behaviors.

[Anonymous No.18345254]

>>18338676
If you can’t see this hack was a globalist glowie astroturfed by langley idk what to tell you

[Anonymous No.18345262]

>>18339800
>pretended to be straight
>larped as a poor blue collar gritty kid, actually a rich privileged jew who attended elite private schools his entire life, including college

[Anonymous No.18345302]

>>18338721
I just don't like that he ate an illegal endangered bird in a cultic ritual.

[Anonymous No.18345402]

>>18338705
nigga went from this to cooking knorr stock cubes with a side of olive oil. maybe he shoulda cut back on the hookers and drugs a bit sooner.

[Anonymous No.18345434]

>>18340127
You’ve seen some pretty fucking ugly vaginas if they looked like oysters.

[Anonymous No.18345593]

>>18338705
I was once kissed by some thots like that, it meant nothing. Kissing someone that you're really attracted to, means everything.

[Anonymous No.18345610]

>>18338670
>"i have never set foot in a commercial kitchen in my life"

[Anonymous No.18345618]

>>18342068
>you are just cooking food.
as someone in the industry there are a lot of chefs and cooks who need to remember this shit

[Anonymous No.18345629]

Everyone of you cunts itt wishes you could cook like he did. /ck/ is a bunch of try hards.

[Anonymous No.18345645]

>>18345629
I cooked a simple meal this afternoon that I lazily put together from the garden, that was 10 times better than anything he every made: guaranteed. Pork loin, with green beans and roasted acorn squash, smothered with a pan sauce that had garlic that was pulled a month ago, cucumbers finished fermented three days ago, and whole grain mustard that was made a week ago. This is a lazy day for me. And I swear, mustard pickle pan sauce with fresh squash/pumpkin is the best thing in this realm. I eat/cook good on the worst of days.

[Anonymous No.18345685]

>>18345645
https://youtu.be/O7oQZFyoC7U

[Anonymous No.18345740]

>>18345645
Woah, you have a pork tree in your garden!

[Anonymous No.18345741]

>>18345740
Pork is a root vegetable you fucking retard. No, it was slaughtered this spring.

[Anonymous No.18345831]

>Microwaving sysco shit from a bag

Wow, so punk rock. I be sure to tip Sid Vicious next time he fries my mozzeralla sticks to perfection.