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Bourdain is adventurous, real, and challenges his conceptions and ideas at every opportunity. He's been in the crapper and pulled himself out, then is able to make jokes about himself.
Deen shows the world that people in the Southern US seem friendly but are generally overweight, bad at impulse control, gluttonous, ethnocentric, arrogant in assuming she speaks for all southern cooking, disdainful of anything higher brow then her, and that enough Americans think she is a role model they shovel money into her pockets while begging for more. Not every Southerner is like that, many are not, but she's the face many people see around the world and keep in their heads.
People have been telling her that her food would make people sick for as long as she has been on the air.
Anthony Bourdain, hands down. He's gruff, honest and have a love for dirty, sketchy, out of the way dives. A man after my own heart
Paula Deen just aggravates me, and she deserves to be slammed for promoting a 'food lifestyle' that ultimately gave her diabetes.
If you read medical literature - there is no certain connection between diet and diabetes. It can be a contributor, along with genes, and a few other factors.
I can't watch too much of Paula because I get tired of how many times she says "y'all." But I have no inherent problem with her style of food. Some of it is just way too rich for me.
Bourdain is just an arrogant a**hole. I just don't like people like that. He is hardly the role model of healthy living.
I think Bourdain is a jackass and I love southern cooking. I'm sure the whole "feud" is staged for publicity.
I love Anthony Bourdain and he has a very valid point.
I love southern cooking, too, but I'm not a Type 2 diabetic due to obesity.
I'm sure lots of people with high cholesterol love steak, but that doesn't mean it's OK for them to eat.
There is little doubt that her cooking/eating habits have negatively impacted her weight. There is also little doubt that her weight is at least part of the reason she's a Type 2 diabetic. There is also a lot of truth to the claim that, on her shows, she seems to revel in the fact that her cooking is horribly unhealthy.
I love both of them but Bourdain shouldn't be advising anybody on a healthy diet when you always see him with a ciggarette in his mouth and a beer in his hand 24/7!
This just in: Bourdain quit smoking several years ago.
Now we know you're watching re-runs.
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Everyone knows Southern food isn't good for you. Paula Deen makes no claims that it is. I've seen Bourdain eat plenty of unhealthy stuff on his shows. I'm sure not everything he cooks his low-cal, low-cholesterol either. No one is forcing you to eat like Paul Deen. I enjoy No Reservations but it seems like Tony is just trying to stir up controversy. Fast food is much more to blame than home-cooked southern cuisine. Most overweight people are too lazy to boil an egg let alone cook a southern feast.
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