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About my essay: Bourdain wants to know, after all he's from that notoriously famous "No Reservations" show! Unlike the other guy who eats bugs and mice, Anthony's sarcastic, funny quips does add a little bit more spice!
Bourdain wants to know, after all he's from that notoriously famous "No Reservations" show! Unlike the other guy who eats bugs and mice, Anthony's sarcastic, funny quips does add a little bit more spice! "Eat well my friend," he often tells us on his show, but you have to cook well too, that ain't so hard to do.
Season and taste, don't ever let food go to waste. Keep it simple, veggies crisp and colorful. Cook meat until it's tender and moist. You just have to do it, there's no other choice. Buy fresh ingredients from the Farmer's Market. "It's fun!" they say, rather than walking through aisle after aisle and you'll probably lose your way. Don't eat junk unless you are stupid or drunk.
If Anthony catches you eating those chicken nuggets, he'll cuss and say, "This is garbage shit, go fuck it!" Cooking well doesn't have to be fancy but not to confuse it with Miss Semi-Homemade...Sandra Lee! Dine out in style if you want, there are quite a few very good restaurants.
Grandma's cooking is always the best, follow your roots and traditions and make it your own unique interpretation. Would you rather eat a hearty beef stew or minestrone or those two for one burgers at Chucky's Burger Dome! Junk-O-Fest fillets are the best...deep fried chicken wings, just hear me out and I'll tell you the rest. Make up your mind Paco, have some previously frozen microwave burrito. Just slather them up with cheese and fat, will you truly be happy eating that crap?
There must be a million ways to answer this question. There's no one right answer, no right or wrong but who has a better suggestion? We all look up to you, Tony, the King of Gastronome. How will you answer this mind-boggling question?
For you have an epicurian taste & sublime authority. We've envied your travel trails and placed a radar for all of us, foodies. You have one hell of a lucky life and I don't think you'll ever mess it up this time. You've been eating well for so many years and have tasted all sorts of global cooking and their unique flavorings...chicken pho, sushi, goat bile soup and spam, squid inked pasta, bone marrow, lechon and Spanish ham! Arroz caldo, poke, foie gras and sashimi, duck egg, durian, bull's testicles, cobra's heart and kimchi.
And all other unexplainable dishes that was served to you by your host, which one may I ask, will you remember the most? So why cook well for you or why cook well at all? It's embedded in us as humans, so we can continue to survive & function. So, going back to Anthony Bourdain's quizzical question, "Why cook food well, my friend?"
You cook well for everyone's satifsaction. Enjoy your food and be happy. Embrace everyone's uniqueness, respect one's culture, it's a potluck of all kinds of adventure. Cook well, my friend and we'll all have to drink to that at rainbow's end!
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