Sex, Drugs, Rock n' Roll and Food with Anthony Bourdain" | On The Table Ep. 1 Full | Reserve Channel

You know Michael Corone was completely wrong. All businesses are personal. You know Eric calls and says, "Let's go play. I play. There are certain people in your life who call you at 4:00 in the morning and say, 'Meet me at the corner of Avenue D.' and Fourth Street and bring a gun and a stolen car a tarp and some duct tape you don't ask why you're just into sex they're sitting around getting high and being predestined

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if you could play the guitar like jimmi Hendrick you would be in a kitchen and

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it is forgivable to cook too much this today my guest Anthony Bordan and everything is on the

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you know my dream is to see Anthony Bouran wake up in his pajamas before coffee I want to see him and see his face and see what he is like I've never seen him ever show that though, no matter where he is, no matter what he does, he never feels uncomfor

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, he's always fine, ah, you made it, what's the matter doing, we're cooking lunch, aren't we going? to order takeout and, uh, I have to say that you are my second choice.

I stopped at Gardens on the way, she's always cooking meatloaf, she was around, so we have red, this is a little. along with the green pepper, oh PE, onion, that's great, garlic, you should know, can you guess what we're going to cook? No, what is that chicken broth? Octopus broth might just take you to the general area of ​​the world we're talking about here. What is it? Oh, that's good, yes, fish, clams and octopus Cru, surprising me, you know what I was sure you would bring some meat. I thought I'd come and cook some meat, eh, or some offal, no one.

I love the generosity of the sea. excellent so let's start cooking this is a dish of my taste called Portuguese sea

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stew and I learned to make it in a Portuguese fishing village. It was this place called Cookies Tap Room or Cookies Pub. I mean, it was a place. a dive and they made this amazing cloudy plate of stuff that I fell in love with and started walking around trying to figure out how to make it, let's go and cook, yeah he rarely cooks and he's a really good cook who I trust. It's going to be good and it's basically soul food that's cooking today you know all about white wine and fish it's a fucking lie red wine and fish are amazing I love red wine and fish especially with octopus, one of the things I love.

The good thing about this dish is that it is very robust and has an almost inky color. Well, let's move on, we have our octopus. I don't know what you want me to do, let's package that like this. I'm your two chefs, but you. You're the chef, you gotta cook, man, you learned it when you were in college, basically, yeah. Summers was around Province Town working as a dishwasher or cook. You know, it was all about going to the beach during the day. time and you were making some money etc., did you graduate from college first or not?

I was a miserable student, he has a lot of experience with interviews. I'm a memoirist, if you ask me questions about myself, chances are I've been asked that question recently and he has a way of expressing himself that sometimes hides the real Anthony Bouran. I covered my shyness with megalomania and exhibitionism. Some might even call it psychotic behavior. I just hated myself, I hated everyone else. You come from a good family right, I mean, I grew up and I liked it Leave it to Beaver, you know I was a Suburbia for some reason, I was an angry, rude kid, I hated college and this kind of outlaw pirate attitude Of the chefs I was attracted to them if I arrived on time and did a good job.

I was rewarded. I had a very high opinion of myself at that time. I thought I was an experienced cook and I was blown away in front of a lot of better and more experienced cooks than me, yeah, I basically got my ass kicked horribly and publicly and made a complete idiot in front of all of them, so really out of desire to avenge my humiliation I went to the CIA, you go to the CIA, uhhuh, and are you a good student? Not only was I a pretty good student, yeah, I worked weekends in New York, so you graduate with owners after going to such a prestigious school, you don't go to a fancy restaurant, people were too impressed with my degree, life was easy and I went for the money when do you start having problems with theft?

The illusions I had about it being the next survey book, who are there probably chemicals involved in that? From the age of 13 or 14, my friends and I found ourselves not only what records we were listening to but what

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we were doing, so I got to college at 17, where's the Coca-Cola and the acid? That was already fashionable now that we were a little ahead of the cocaine curve, how spicy you are. I want this for myself. I like it spicy. I don't know for you. If you want a weak, sweat-inducing version, you'll need a strong hit of hot sauce, either Tabasco or dur key, so put in the "come now." toast it or yeah, okay and let's throw in our octopus and that will cool the pan considerably, let's add a little bit of wine up here, that's it, we can leave it like that for a while, in fact, we can turn it down a little bit. a little so that you end up in Le.

I jumped into chef jobs very easily thanks to a CIA degree and for a couple of years hanging around New York I ran several restaurants as a chef in a very sweet life and obtained many things that a young man traditionally likes, but among those things was, you know, a serious drug. There would be a finite amount of time you could do that, and of course it got me in the end. I went into rehab and then I came out of there with I had no career and started all over again. Line cook for shucking oysters.

Brunch cook. A type of line production in catering houses for vendors. to, if not the top, at least a position of authority, okay, I'm going to pour some octopus broth on it. This is the thing about octopus: you cook it for a while and it gets tougher and tougher and tougher and then it comes to this. point at which it finally starts to get very tender, it's forgivable to overcook this if you don't. I wouldn't worry too much about 15 minutes, half an hour here or there when I watched him take over the kitchen he's not as precise as I am, but I'm confident it's going to be good, it was clear from the beginning C that there will be no competition between us according to no metric.

Eric is very high and I was very, very comfortably the year that we can throw the tomatoes now, in fact, the tomatoes are now just thrown away. put it in there and stir it, it's okay in confidential kchen. I said it jokingly as an example of my insignificance in the chef hierarchy. Eric Repair won't be calling me for recipe advice anytime soon. Cooking is really hard to write about so you are a better writer than a cook writing has brought me more rewards let's put it that way listen I was 44 when that book came out so it was a good time did you feel relieved at first?

I thought I'd better keep my day job because this can't Lastly, this can't last. I could never actually make a living. Who makes a living writing? TV F Network approached you about the book, so when you do the cooks tour, suddenly you have a presence on television and I remember a scene from I Think It's On That Show Where You Eat the Heart of a Cobra. They cut it out and give you the heart. It's like you do it. You did it so, for shock value, I thought this would all end at any moment if I eat myself alive.

The beating heart of a cobra, after everything goes wrong I'll be sitting in a bar a year from now and I'll be able to ask people for free drinks telling them like Cobra's story, say "hey buddy, you want me to dump you?" I tell you this story about how people like blood, I mean, the Romans went to the circus and the Christians were tricked by the lion. They like exaggerated characters and Antonio can be good at that. I find you very prolific in terms of keeping yourself busy doing. things all the time your mind never stops I realized that even today I mean, I know you come back from the trip.

I'm surprised to see you already tweeting and writing, do you let your mind rest a little sometimes yes, I can? unplug for a while I'm pretty sure I'm capable of taking a vacation. I know how lucky I am. I just don't want to ruin it. Free time is bad for a person like me. You know I shouldn't. I have a lot of free time but you don't do it well, but I do it deliberately because if I had a lot of free time I might behave badly again. You know, you get sleepy, you get lazy, too much time in the hammock.

We're making Bas free like Charlie Sheen. There's a fine line between the two Anthony bans we see. The Anthony we see today is the Anthony I see all the time on TV. Can you show that on a damn man in a sense and be very entertaining and people would love that and laugh, you want to see my surprise, yeah, take the glasses and see what I have, oh Lord, I didn't tell you, okay , let's go, let's go, you can't tell people. about these things, man, he's too good, he's the most glorious BB on the face of the planet.

I think we have enough. If you want an ice cube, a drop of water, possibly an ice cube will help it bloom a little bit. A little Ice. Cube, let me get it, some might consider it a sin, but I think it helps, okay, an Ice Cube, oh man, and then you know what the bottle is. No way buddy, yeah, yeah, the bottle is yours, seriously, I'm pretty sure if there is a God, he wants us to drink for Friendship, so without reservations from the first season until today, in my opinion , it has been a great evolution.

If you're going to do television, if you're going to do anything, it should be fun. I'm telling stories now, if you see it change over time it's because you learn some things along the way, you know hope

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y you'll get better, but you definitely change whether you're cooking, telling stories, writing or anything else. your interest changes, you change, I hope you learn and I think the show reflects that I don't want to interrupt Tony, but I think we're starting to smell good and yeah, we're ready for the C. I think we're ready. for the C, right, how are the potatoes going there, okay, there is a very fine line between the two prohibitions of Anthony that we see that he will be unbearable, he will probably be a homeless person somewhere angry, he will get drunk all night and then He's going to appear on TV again, but that doesn't exist in real life and you also know that he's mature, he's accumulated some wisdom through his experiences in life, well, I'm not the Green Hornet, you know, I mean, Are you a moody guy?

How do you wake up in the morning and let's say? before coffee and after coffee, if I wake up first thing in the morning and see my daughter first thing, I'm a happy guy, well you don't see her much because you travel a lot, thanks for pointing that out. right, I'm a, we got that out there guys, so wake up, her daughter is there, you're happy she's not there. I bet I'm smarter and more creative in the morning. As the day goes on, I become slower and more stupid to meditate. do meditation in the morning so that those who do meditation I don't meditate i i i Fester what is it Fester sulking meditating you ruminate I'm ruminating that I would bet ruminating Revenge scenarios could be I'm excited look at the consistency yes, the thickness can't come from just theato this It's a good thing, it's really good, let it sit overnight and then reheat it tomorrow it will be much better, better if you go back to America a lot mhm, thank God, you're still angry sometimes when someone is lying, it's yours and you can't accept it . you're abusing food I love on TV for example and you lie about it and say this is the way to do it and in fact it clearly isn't if someone shows you it's perfectly fine after cooking the pasta rinse it with cold water and Wait, wait for this spaghetti until later until your guests arrive.

I'm angry now, you're really upset because he's killing me. It's criminal. It's almost criminal. It's not difficult to do it the right way. In fact, it's easier to do it the right way. and it's more fun to do it the right way. There are many reasons in this world we live in to take a shortcut, to save money, to try to save time, but it's those times when people just beg you to kill a simple good thing and then it's trying to put on the cape why do you get so angry at some people on television?

You chase them relentlessly. I made a living for years making fun of poor Esmeralda. You really chase them. Maybe it's me. Having an internal argument with myself when I see someone saying, "okay, you know you already have the crappy kitchen utensils and spice mix and you know the brand name knives and the aprons, do you really need like mattresses?" I can eat buffets and a diabetes medication so we were tadin I brought it, you brought po to the debate, maybe it's because it's an argument with myself. They told me why can't I do that, why can't I just back up a bunch. of cynical garbage it's a matter of integrity it's not vanity on my part I think I'm a fool at the end of the day you know I will be crushed under the wheels of history and they will continue to sell theirmattresses and his poor quality spice mixes and I will be on television, a program that is purely entertaining and has nothing to do with the art of cooking, the passion for cooking that irritates him a lot, so he was trying to understand why that sometimes he is angry. on certain shows and such without talking about that guy, that woman is evil and I think we did a good job on that, although a couple of times Po's name came out right, I think it's clam time, clam time, okay ?

Let's see how many we have, so that goes in our case. Presentation is also important, of course. You like to go after vegetarians You don't care when you have a vegetarian Come to your restaurant Are you not completely prepared to accommodate them in my house Not me and in my house No problem I can't cook spaghetti with pompoms is a vegetarian, I would like to do it, yes of course, now, very late in my life, I was lucky enough to travel and see the world and I have eaten many things that are among the most delicious and incredible of my life.

I've eaten a lot of bad things in my life and I feel like if you go to someone else's house, especially in the developing world where they don't have many food options, I think it's just good manners to be curious about the way they live. people and what they have to offer and accept the little they have to offer with an open heart and mind despite your personal preferences here we go, look at that color, I mean that's it. I'm going to cut some bread this dish was made to dip with a crust of bread you know what Italians call scarpeta at the end you want to dip bread there we started cooking we were talking drinking we were having fun take the glasses look what I have, oh Sir, I know that you are very passionate about that Burbon, which is the most glorious bourbon on the face of the planet.

We went to have our little glass of Puy to accompany it. Greetings, when we were drunk, the stew was cooked and ready I came back I drank a little more I would recommend it with like a Vio Verde or a beer a cold beer you know what's good this is delicious it's great let's talk about good and evil that was your idea of ​​bringing me On the road with you you tried to make me look evil, well, it's an irresistible impulse. I'm supposed to be the asshole on Top Chef. He's the one who sends that sweet, adorable Tiffany Derry home for no good reason that he can see.

It's like that, Eric. You are an old man, you have lived a life, you have done many things and you have stories to tell, so now you are on stage telling stories and, incredibly, you give a good talk about it for a long time. So no reservation is finished, why did you decide to leave a chain that gave you a lot of freedom? All of a sudden you end up on CNN, our show airs here, and then over the course of a few years, all the networks buy the show. around the world eventually it is seen in all parts of the world but your years later I already like it a lot, it is very satisfying personally for me if we film a show in Malaysia.

I like to hear back later from Malaysia and say, "hey, it's awesome that you found exactly the right place. I like to hear that we did well in a country thanks to the people who actually live there. This is really my only agenda. Who are these people? Why do they eat what they like on the table? That's it, really, as far as I'm going, CNN will mean that instead of waiting, we will be seen simultaneously around the world, but the most important thing is that They are a global news gathering operation. I'm not a news gatherer.

I'm not a journalist. There are places in this world that we haven't been able to film because the infrastructure wasn't there. Libya, Gaza, the West Bank, you want to go. to Gaza, to the STP of Gaza. Those places have been difficult before a tragedy happens. They always do it in a far away place. Yes, before reading about a disaster, it is useful to have seen something about who these people are and how they live ABC. nigela a program, I can tell you that the set looks like you know at the end of Bon's movie it's like the giant secret laboratory, you know, with a tractor beam, right, it's like that, it will be a great competitive cooking thing in prime time.

I think Nigela Lawson is weird and fabulous and I think she might not be the two people you imagine in the same room together, she's definitely sexier than you. I think we will be interesting and fun together on television. Today's chef is considered almost like

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stars, maybe 30 years ago in France you couldn't be. more blue color than Chef was like a manufacturing job and now many chefs became famous chefs, but we know we are not rock stars. I mean, come on, if you could play guitar like Jimmy Hendricks, would you be in a kitchen? There are no chefs. they work all day from 9:00 in the morning doing the same thing over and over again, yes rock and

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stars, maybe they perform 2-3 hours a night and the rest of the time they are sitting around, getting high and being destined .

It's good, sure, but I mean, they have to practice, they have to work, in my opinion, if you destroy your room at Chatow Marma, they will say, oh, that's a crazy saying, Eric again, no, it's Tony B, throw away the room again. Listen, greetings, thank you very much for being in my kitchen, it was a pleasure for me, and actually cooking because I have rarely seen you cook. You know, we both have these dysfunctions, very busy lives where we don't have a lot of time to do what is presumably normal. things you know Eric is a person that if I travel for 6 months and I don't see him I don't have to explain his life is almost as good as mine, he is my best friend and I think the fact that he travels so much gives him a different perspective of life and think differently than you thought 20 years ago.

He is a different man. Okay, Tony, thank you so much for coming and actually cooking. Enjoy it. I also enjoyed it a lot. We had fun. I would be honored if you could sign, that's pretty impressive, it's not the knife, you want to see the knife like you, okay, that's it, that's the edge signature, okay, I do it M, what the fuck, that's cute , brother, come on, brother, let's get out of here, oh. You French people, so today Tony was with me and he was a great pleasure, he is a friend of mine. He really wanted to capture a little bit of his true personality.

I don't meditate i i i Fester I covered my shyness with a megalomania and exhibitionism someone Let's even call it psychotic behavior. I didn't expect Anthony to put on some kind of show cooking this incredibly cloudy dish of things that are forgivably overcooked. I thought he would come and cook some meat like Beast Stoll type of food. I have to say he was delighted. to see that he came with that octopus man. I love the generosity of the sea, as I have throughout my career. I think I benefited from low expectations today. He is a professional.

I'm not the Green Hornet. You know he has a lot. of experience with interviews as an interview topic I am spoiled meat in many ways and he has a way of expressing himself after a while. I mean, you know you're asking if the prostitute loves you, she'll never love you, he's got this. certain perspective on life I don't need to be adored I'd rather be like Myer Lansky famous no one knows what I look like but I'm definitely going to get a booking and a break if I want one that makes him the irreplaceable uh Anthony Bordan you know Michael Corone was wrong for complete.

All businesses are personal. You know, Eric calls and says, "Let's go play. I play. There are certain people in your life who call you at 4:00 in the morning and say, 'Meet me on the corner of Avenue D and St. Fourth and you bring a gun and a stolen car a tarp and some duct tape you don't ask why you just leave wouldn't you like to quit your job and live the life you've always dreamed of? I'm really living the dream. as an expat. I feel freer here than in the United States. This is it, man, this is the life Join Savannah Jane Buffett as I follow two college friends who left their grueling office jobs and moved away. to St John to be bartenders at Paradise, now they don't just serve drinks, they've created the number one micr beer in the Caribbean I looked and it was about 30 booths and at that point I said I couldn't roll the dice. and I want to take a break from what I was doing.

Nice place to live, don't you think that's not bad? It was a very surreal feeling because this is all new to me, this will be my new At that moment we knew we were all at home, they are the lucky guys, they make a living making beer on an island, they are just two guys hanging out in the Caribbean and brewing great beer and you know, living the dream, I guess so. Yes Yes