Anthony Bourdain: Tasting what the world has to offer
News item: Turks in Germany not interested in assimilating.
So German Turks don’t want to be Germans. How shocking! It is so out of character. Muslims who don’t want to fit in? Really?
But what’s the big deal anyway? Hey, in Justin Trudeau’s Canada we don’t want anyone to assimilate. We want them to “integrate”. We want them to maintain their “identity,” and offer us the benefit of their traditions, their fresh perspectives, and their cuisine. Especially their cuisine. I mean, that is one thing that I learned from Anthony Bourdain. It is all about sampling a nation’s cuisine. That’s the litmus test of a nation’s and a culture’s worth.
“Oh, your country is guided by a barbaric seventh-century worldview? You oppress women? You support terror and jihad? No problem because the pita bread and the sweet coffee you serve is wonderful!”
Anthony taught me a lesson. You must never pass judgment on a culture or a people until you have actually dined with them. You accept their gracious hospitality, look into their eyes, laugh at their jokes and praise them for their culinary skills. In other words, you get to know them as human beings. Face to face.
“OK, so you beat both of your wives and murdered your unmarried daughter because she brought dishonour to your family, but what the hell, I like you anyway! Your jovial personality and delectable dishes have won me over. I mean, who could ask for anything more? Ever thought about coming to America? You’d like it in Deerborn, but if you don’t, there are no-go zones opening up all over the country. Tell you what. If you sneak in as an illegal, I mean, an undocumented immigrant, I’ll get you in at the next Democratic Party Convention!”
Be sure to tune in this Sunday on CNN for another installment of Anthony Bourdain’s “Unknown Parts”. Next stop: North Korea. Anthony will be taken on a guided tour of the Glorious People’s Republic, where once again he will be invited into the home of a normal, average hard-line Communist family who will reveal that our stereotypes are all wrong.
Join Anthony and his hosts and you will understand that deep down these robotic cogs of the Orwellian nightmare that is North Korea are friendly folks just like you and me. They too love their children and they love their food. Oh their food! You haven’t lived until you have had their food. Don’t believe me? Then you ought to taste their rice! That is, when it’s available. Sometimes millions of North Korean go on a crash diet. Ethnocentric Americans , nativists, bigots and White Supremacists might call it a famine, but it is really just a form of collective weight management as practiced by a unique and exotic culture.
In case I forgot to tell you, all cultures are created equal. Except ours of course, which is a decadent, racist, sexist, homophobic and materialistic legacy of Western imperialism and colonialism that deserves to be diversified out of existence by mass immigration and state-mandated multiculturalism. Didn’t they teach that to you in college? It’s part of the anti-Western canon.
You see, despite our differences we are really all just the same. People are people the world over. Somali pirates, jihadists, pizza delivery men, hockey moms, radical Imams , badminton players, pedophiles, suicide bombers, Americans, Nigerians in Boko Haram….just people. All part of the human family. And we can all get along if only we can sit down and break bread with each other.
Call it “inter-faith dialogue” over dinner. You too can co-exist with people who want to kill , subjugate or displace you. All it takes is an open mind and an empty stomach.
Bon appétit!
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So German Turks don’t want to be Germans. How shocking! It is so out of character. Muslims who don’t want to fit in? Really?
So if these Turks were Christian, would their mass immigration into Germany be acceptable? Is the Alt-right against third world immigration in general or just specifically anti-Muslim immigration?
I’ve been saying this for years about Anthony Bourdain. It’s refreshing to see someone take notice of this glaring idiocy.
I know some things about food, so I can see the argument that we “need” sushi chefs to make “real” sushi or, more pointedly, we need French chefs to make French food (a very complex cuisine that diminishes year by year in the US). However, there is very little to recommend Mexican food. Any idiot can put beans and cheese in a store bought tortilla (or if you have 5 minutes, make your own). Sadly, that’s the extent of their cuisine. It always amuses me to hear people on the East Coast say there’s no good Mexican food there. There’s no skill at all in making any well-known Mexican dish.
Cooking and food shows have become another way to brainwash the masses ( the white people masses of course as no other people on this planet must be replaced according to our overlords ) into believing other cultures are great and immigration is thus great too.
In pretty much every food show there is some pro-multiculti culturalism or pro immigration propaganda.
Bourdain told Marc Maron on the WTF podcast that he’s learned to practice cultural relativism among Americans with views he considers bigoted. He cuts them slack because he does the same with foreigners, stating he owes the same courtesy to his fellow countrymen.
He’s against the Jewish treatment of Arabs and doesn’t view himself as Jewish. Until that Israel/Palestine episode I didn’t know he was Ashkenazi from his maternal side.
He wasn’t raised in that society.
Many thanks for this timely information, Mr Murray. Having read Anthony Bourdain’s early-life memoirs some years ago before knowing anything about him (he is much better-known in the US than in the UK due to network TV exposure), I confess to having been initially very impressed by what seemed to be his breadth of culinary dedication across a succession of nightmare apprentice Chef jobs in his youth. I was also at that time frankly suckered by the glowing cover reviews of his book – and it was indeed in parts highly memorable, and also deeply funny.
Yet beneath the surface – and to me never far beneath – was always the same smug, self-assured arrogance of a highly-intelligent man completely oblivious to any sense of shame or regret over his own past failings – even though he spelled many of them out quite graphically in the book. Thus it was clear to me from every page that even many years later he saw nothing at all regrettable, let alone reprehensible, in his choice of high-cost heavy drug abuse, which of course grew inexorably over time – and in more recent years cost him his marriage – nor in his minglings both professionally and personally with individuals describable as morally dubious at best and mostly much worse. Through the pitch-black humour of his book shone the pathetic, risible teenage pride of a man who has no regrets at all for a decades-long lifestyle of booze, drugs, cheap women, criminal associates and a shockingly, pathetically-adolescent, inveterately foul mouth. Also, as I read, I grew more and more mystified and irritated by his constant glorifications of the mean multi-cultural crime-covered streets of his various cities of work – not to mention his frequent praises for the honest, hard-slaving ethnics who staffed his kitchens and also turned a loyal blind eye to his and his friends’ worst abuses.
Most damningly of all, at least to me, was the obvious realisation in every chapter – which he did not have the skill or perhaps even the inclination to disguise – that his entire inner motivation from his earliest years was simply swift upward career movement and the acquiring of wealth, to which working as a Chef was nothing more than a convenient means to an end. In other words, his entire public persona of dedicated “food lover” and unworldly culinary “expert” was a huge fraud, meant only for media consumption. His prime motivation was always to join the world of “White-privilege” wealth, media fame and celebrity status – and thereby leave the gritty life of the sweating, working-class kitchens which he pretended to love far behind him.
And how else but by being a fully paid-up, networked, media-exposed, prime-time, self-promoting, self-deceiving, envious, degenerate, thoroughly hypocritical New York Jew ?
He’s a run-of-the-mill Jewish termite selling more catastrophic utopian idiocy.
According to Wiki, Bourdain was born in New York from a French father (classical music industry executive) and a Jewish mother working for The New York Times.
His parents probably patronized expensive restaurants. That would explain why he became interested in high cuisine. And the fact he is a half-Jew working for the Jewish media explains why he claims that people are all the same. But how does he reconcile the two things? It’s hard to have snobbish conversations with third-world savages about what kind of worms or grubs are the best.
I see similar TV programs in France, where journalists travel across the world and try the local food. What annoys me most is their chumminess with the savages, as if they were old friends. They always say “tu” instead of “vous”. As if there were no obstacle to communication with other races, and as if all the third-world savages were just as stupid leftists as anyone else in the West. It doesn’t even make sense. What’s the point of meeting foreigners if we are all the same?
In Western Europe, the South is culinarily superior to the North. That’s why the Scots, who eat only porridge and haggis, dream of Italy. In that particular case, food tourism makes sense. But a Jewish journalist cannot share a dinner with Pygmies and claim that it is the same philosophical approach as a Scot going to an Italian pizzeria. That would be dishonest.
There is no doubt Anthony Bourdain is a smug and sanctimonious liberal. However, I give him credit for his program where he visited the West Bank and treated the Palestinians as a human beings rather than the evil caricatures commonly depicted by the media. He was even critical of the occupation.
Take the food away from mult-culti and there’s nothing else to promote. That’s the real reason why our Special Service Broadcasting (SBS) down under, relies pretty heavily on the promotion of multicultural food.
J.Sabag
NSW Australia
Tim Murray has extra news about Bourdain here: http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2016/08/anthony-bourdain-tasting-what-world-has-to-offer.html
His mother was Jewish, hence his degeneracy.
He is not “degenerated”, he is a clever agent.
“…Call it “inter-faith dialogue” over dinner…”
Better call it “inter-food dialogue”.
What this person Anthony Bourdain is promoting is what I call the “restaurant-argument” in favor of multi-culturalism. You meet that often : we should welcome mass immigration from the Third World, because that will “enrich” our culture with all kinds of exotic restaurants. As if you need millions of Chinese immigrants to have a few Chinese restaurants in your country (for which a few Chinese families would be enough). This is a low level trick to sell racial displacement by appealing to an elementary function : eating.
As I said : we don’t need millions of exotic immigrants in order to have a few exotic restaurants. Besides, our own people could master the art of exotic cooking themselves, so no need even of very restricted exotic immigration. Heck, Western civilization did very well for centuries without exotic restaurants, so let’s ditch the ridiculous “restaurant argument” in favor of racial suicide !
To be frank, Whites do not need any non-White people for non-White cuisine. It is as though Whites cannot learn how to prepapre non-White dishes. I find it an arrogant liberal argument that Westerners/Whites need Chinese for Chinese cuisine/restaurants when any Westerner/White can just learn Chinese cuisine and replicate Chinese dishes for his own racial comrades. Chinese cuisine is very diverse as is Western cuisine, but it is not like it is impossible for Whites to learn Chinese cuisine or for Chinese to learn Western cuisine. After all, Chinese can also make pizzas and Whites can also make dumplings. Bottom line: You need no immigrants for anything and you can just rely on your own race. The argument that you need immigrants is colonialist/imperialist.
How about this: we just swap recipes with other countries. Not entire populations.
Isn’t the “only X people can prepare X food” rayciss? Surely we just need to spend more money in cuisine-challenged white bread neighborhoods.
We need to spend more money cooking our own kind of food at home instead of relying on restaurants. My father went to a restaurant exactly once in his life.
As satirically humorous as this piece is, Tim Murray forgot the age old Talmudic Jewish Culinary Tradition of eating Young White Children after gang-raping them and beating them to death.
Oh yes, I forgot, he is in the “Jew-minion of Kafkada” where revealing the Secret Deviances of Jews entails being added to the list of ingredients on the Kosher Slaughter Menu.
I suppose Mr. Murray consistently conveniently forgets to mention Jews in the equation because Canadian PM, Justin Trudeau, is a Megalomaniacal, Unhinged, Narcissist married to a Mongrel Jewess…, not an ideal place to write from.
Come on in, we’d love to have you for dinner;P
Rick Steves is the same way. If you eat with them, then you understand there are no problems.
There was an episode where he danced and partied with Turks as they were getting ready for a boy’s circumcision. He was really into it too, smiling big and jumping and holding hands to celebrate a barbaric genital mutilation. He probably would have been okay with suttee back in the day.
Cucks and jews, man, what can you do.
Apparently even German Germans don’t want to be German. Just ask Angela.
Deliciously Hilarious!!
@Laguna Beach Fogey, Toasty broil for Bourdain.
He really is an insufferable prick. He’s like a cliched, “wish I was French” Marxist professor, but of Culinary Studies. At the very start of his TV career he was occasionally funny (he has a kitchen staff entirely made up of Mexican immigrants, so he went to visit their home villages and the food was so awful “I felt like throwing myself off the roof”) but about 5 years ago his shows became pro-immigration travelogues of the lowest, stupidest kind: as the author says, he really does say “Let’s welcome everyone from anywhere, as long as the food it tasty.” Helps to be a millionaire celeb, of course.
l liked the episode when the African pygmies fed him barely cooked pig anus, and he was too embarrassed by his western style knowledge of parasitology, plus being generally too much of a pussy to say “no thanks!”
Hilarious.
I’ve been a long time viewer of his show. But recently he had an episode set in Cologne, where he met with a local chef over dinner and discussed the ‘refugee’ crisis. Bourdain expressed hope that race-mixing would wipe out the German race and eliminate racism. Incredible. I’m reserving a special place in the oven for Bourdain.
Race-mixing is the ultimate sin against race and racial identity. A race-mixed person does not have a better understanding of cultures. He or she does not have a full/pure grasp of any of the cultures of his or her ancestors. You need to be full, complete, pure for that. Race-mixed people are a different people entirely, and if there are any genetic advantages at all to being a first-generation race-mixed person, those advantages cannot be transmitted to the next generation because one’s genes have to be racially stable for that (i.e. being genetically similar). When a new race has emerged through mixing, it will not have those alleged ‘advantages’ of the first generation. It will take a long time for a mixed population’s genes to settle down and become stable. However, it is nonsense to wait for that and to encourage the creation of entirely new populations that are alien to our own. It is not like we need new populations, we already have enough to work with on this planet. The belief that mixing will lead to one race is as mistaken as the idea that encouraging everyone to speak one global language will make them speak one language. When everyone speaks ‘English’, you will soon notice new ‘English’ dialects and languages start to emerge, spontaneously. That is evolution for you. The liberal ideals are impossible in this world because it runs against evolution.
“A race-mixed person does not have a better understanding of cultures. He or she does not have a full/pure grasp of any of the cultures of his or her ancestors.”
I wonder what’s left of White people’s culture. We now live in a foreign culture dominated by the Jews. All that is left is European genes. But maybe the situation is better in Eastern Europe.
Even without the Jews, a lot of the popular peasant culture of two centuries ago would be gone. You cannot tell how much of the loss is due to the Jews.
Some people, who lived during the transition from the old peasant culture to the new modern Judaized culture, have written books about it. But it sounds like the old culture they lived in as children had become something exotic even to them.
I think the world needs to be partitioned and reorganized on a smaller scale so we can have societies that feel more friendly and natural, as in the old times.
@ Amor:
That’s going to happen as a matter of course, though it won’t be pretty. The universal paper-money regime has artificially boosted the division of labour (most notably across borders), and consequently, micro-specialization. As the monetary regime’s disastrous flaws become more apparent, it’s easy to see tariff wars, trading restrictions etc. unwinding this division of labour. Whole skill-sets will need to be relearned, and in a hurry, too.
@ Armor (sorry for the “Amor”, ha ha):
I should also have mentioned that the massive State and Federal subsidization of transport infrastructure has also skewed commerce away from local to national/international modes. Walmart outcompetes local businesses partially by dint of taxpayers picking up the tab for long-distance transport costs (damage to roads, subsidies to ports, airports, etc.).
https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-industry-subsidy/
“Even without the Jews, a lot of the popular peasant culture of two centuries ago would be gone. You cannot tell how much of the loss is due to the Jews.”
60 million or so White Christians in WW2 alone, not to mention WW1 or other wars too numerous to mention.
Looking into the deeper and more factual levels of the 20th century, it is quite easy to see how much of the loss is due to jews.