Chef Profile: Anthony Bourdain
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I was honored to be invited to cover two food and wine festivals in the Cayman Islands over the weekend of January 15th: The Cayman Cookout, and the Taste of Cayman.
Both are annual events, but this is the first year that the planets aligned and they fell on the same weekend. I attend food and wine festivals on a regular basis, and celebrity chefs always show up, but at the Cookout, it was like the pages of Food and Wine Magazine blew open and out spilled all of them.
Grant Achatz from Alinea, voted Best Chef in the U.S. by the James Beard Foundation in 2008, was there, along with David Chang of Momofuku. In fact, on my way to see Anthony Bourdain’s presentation on Friday afternoon, who did I see kicking around in the sand but celebrated chef Eric Ripert, the official Cookout host, whose restaurant Blue recently opened at the Ritz Carlton, home base for the festival.
That wasn’t all. The next day, perched in a chair under a big white tent, her hair flying in the wind, was none other than Gail Simmons from Top Chef. [Watch our exclusive video interview with Simmons next week.]
Tony’s presentation was akin to a standup routine. It resembled an R-rated version of his TV show while he stood in one place and sipped from a highball glass. Afterwards, he graciously granted an interview to BehindTheKnife about the tools in his life.
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My favorite episode has to be the one in Singapore where they boo’ed Anthony for not having Chicken Rice. Why? Because 1) I am from there 2) I was really missing home when I saw that 3) It was just great eats all through out