>Moscow episode >Intro shows tanks and protests >Only interviews 'dissidents' and oppressed gays>Discusses food for less than 2mins in total, doesn't try classic dishes>Shits on Russian culture constantly>Shanghai episode>Glazes China for the entire episode>Interviews no dissidents >Appreciates the food>Talks about how shit America is in comparison What a duplicitous fag
>>214706002what is he supposed to highlight? Salads drenched in industrial (and originally French) mayo? Borscht or peirogi / pieroshky (which is polish / Ukrainian)?I mean I guess beluga caviar is legit. But there’s very little that Russia has contributed to world cuisine. I can’t think of a single culinary technique or unique recipe. Russian food is derivative. Even vodka originated in Poland. t chef.
>>214706002he got more insufferable and self righteous as time went on. the china one with christopher doyle (aired the week anthony died) was shitty and consisted of him treating rich chinese artists who own restaurants as people
>>214706348blinis mog crepes thoanyway yeah his "food" show was gay trash
>>214706442lol.Blinis are literally small crepes. It’s almost exact same recipe but without the technique to spread across the heating surface. Russians didn’t have large pans so they altered it to what they had, which was pouring a small dollop and letting it settle naturally (like a pancake) instead of using a crepe spreader.
>>214706348Who cares where it is from originally? China is an entirely fake nation with ethnicities that are just as different as Poles and Russians. Yes, he could have discussed all the things you mentioned and more, and he could have been honest about how unremarkable it was, but in a way that was fair to the culture, instead of making political propaganda
>>214706406It was so weird how in the Russia episode he acts all anti establishment and socialist (he criticises the massive inequality in Russia), but then in the China episode he praises Chinese wealth and capitalism. It's almost like he had no real convictions
>>214706002His Russia episodes with Zamir are kino. And obviously a New York chef is gonna respect China's culinary history over Russia's. The politics stuff in china was probably a requirement because China literally places government officials to monitor foreign tv production, his fixer was literally secret police.
>>214706002he died so that Jeffrey Epstein might live
>>214706741So what? They are an important part of Russian culture and religious traditions. If he did any research he could have talked about that
>>214706002He was a libtard but as >>214706348 points out even when it comes to Eastern European cuisine overall Russia is pretty lackluster in that category
>Obama but (((white)))/thread
I mean russia is literally a failed nation and is currently china's bitch. Nobody respects russia. Not even russians.
>>214706828I only watched the Moscow one from season 3, but it sucked, maybe the others are better. There's nothing wrong with liking Chinese food more, its just the entire episode was about how bad the Russian government and culture is, he barely attempted to talk to normal Russian people, or to eat normal Russian food, I think it was for about 2 minutes of the total run time
>>214706348so why didnt he highlight that their cuisine is derivitive instead of going on about stuff unrelated to food
>>214706002Have a SAGE have 2
>>214706915>or to eat normal Russian foodWhat are some examples of food visitors should try to understand the culinary landscape there better?
>>214706901OK but can you explain how critiques of Russia as authoritarian, anti gay, and having very high inequality don't also apply to China?
Why do you fucks care so much? He’s dead. Fulfilled his philosophy. Let his memory fade like all the rest.
>>214706805It's almost like Russia's foreign media policies were more free than China's.
>>214706002Eat shit, you ignorant chud. Russia is our enemy. You got brainwashed by social media to be a bad person.
>>214706940Losers get shit on. It's that simple. Sorry russia bro. I doubt this should register as an issue when russia has been dying a slow tortured death from many other more pressing problems
>>214706915In the other Russian episodes of NR he eats plenty of home cooking and glazes it too. The moscow episode is what it is because Moscown in the early 2000s kinda sucked. I highly recommend the Harbin episode too because it's literally a hybrid of both countries.
>>214706936Anything that this guy mentions >>214706348 in addition of the traditional festive dishes like blini (sweet and savoury ones), the cakes that they have for easter, rye bread pudding, fermented rye drink (kvass), gelatin cake, and things that are not very unique but popular like cutlets with buckwheat. Not all of this is especially delicious, but you could have an interesting conversation about why it is popular in Russia. Also he could have gone to an old soviet cafeteria , which are still run today. Instead one of the only places he went to was a fine dining restaurant run by a British guy
>>214706940Because China would never let him film there again, Russia actually has some semblance of freedom of press.
>>214707002Ah OK, maybe I will check these out, thank you
it seemed like he had a mood disorder. i guess that's easy to lob out there at a guy who killed himself, but the way he would tear things down (including himself), you could tell sometimes he meant it. and i don't know what could have been done for him. i don't trust head meds, and he was already in therapy. and it's not like he was some kind of big failure, he wasn't on any kind of professional downslope that i'm aware of. i think people become unsettled by him pulling the plug because you have to acknowledge an impulse that's hard to explain. it doesn't matter how well you are or aren't doing. one morning, some people wake up, and make the decision. "i can't do another of these."
>>214707054>>214706953OK, but this still makes him a hypocrite and dishonest since he was all about muh honesty and authenticity
>>214706002>literally cucked to deathLMAO
>>214706942>fulfilled his philosophy by killing himself What do you mean by this?
>>214707064You should check out the documentary. He isolated himself from his old friends so he could focus on his bpd wife. I think nostalgia for simpler pre-cnn times killed him.
>>214706002>Have a suicide have two
>>214707089He gets more critical of china while talking to dissidents in the Hong Kong episode
>>214707135He was always depressed>At other points during the therapy session Bourdain describes himself as feeling “like a freak”, “very isolated”, characterizes his grueling, peripatetic lifestyle as “crushing lonely”, and recounts how easily something as insignificant as a bad hamburger at an airport can send him “into a spiral of depression that can last for days.” Toward the end of the session, when the therapist returns to her opening question “what brought you here? “, he responds “I'd like to be happy. I'd like to be happier. I should be happy ... I'd like to be able to look out the window and say, 'Yeah, life is good.' When the therapist asks “... and you don't ?,” he answers with a simple, reflexive “No”. He also confides to the therapist that he attributes his problems to a narcissistic personality disorder. And when the therapist asks how long he has had this trait, he says “I think always. So nothing to be done.">As Bourdain continued to struggle publically with his demons over the years, he also became increasingly comfortable with the idea of suicide as potential exit strategy. He became particularly comfortable with the idea of hanging himself as an option, and was especially drawn to the idea of hanging himself in the shower. Sufficiently comfortable that he referred casually and explicitly to killing himself in this way throughout his professional career. Not occasionally, but frequently. A cursory review of his public statements over the years reveals 19 separate occasions— in writing, during interviews, and on camera— on which he refers to suicide by hanging. On the vast majority of these occasions he refers explicitly to hanging himself in the shower, on one occasion more specifically to hanging himself in the shower of his hotel room, and on one occasion even more specifically to hanging himself in the shower stall of his lonely hotel room.
>>214706002his shows are hit or miss, there are some great episodes and some not so great ones. his commentary was always coloured by his opinions about certain places, his mood on the day of shooting, how he got along with people, among other things. and he was a pretty mercurial person and couldn't seem to just switch on a personality for the camera, so there was a lot of variance. I like him overall but I can't binge watch his stuff, I just watch it in short bursts every now and then, otherwise it gets kind of exhausting. and if you're not feeling an episode, just skip to another one. the dude has a ton of content. also, you have to understand his shows aren't solely about food. the food angle is really just a backdrop and excuse for him to travel around and for social connectivity. if you want a show that really takes a deep dive into food culture, probably look elsewhere.
>>214706002Calm down have a Negroni.
>>214706002>mmm... yummy!>*cuts out ten hours worth of footage of him violently puking and shitting*
Russia is cultural black hole that has contributed nothing to human civilization but mongol destruction. Thats why the czars were so desperate to europeanize it. There is no indigenous culture. Nothing of value would be lost by Russia’s destruction.
>>214707064He was a heavy drug user before striking it big with his book. That kind of thing leaves a hole in your soul long after you leave it behind. And instead of confronting it, he just kept running from it, until it caught up.
>>214706002>What a duplicitous faghe's a liberal jew, what do you expect?that's a double dose of duplicity.
>>214707200Fair enough, makes sense>>214707181Glad to hear that
>>214706348>what is he supposed to highlight?I don't know, the food?
>>214707247see, and this too. there's no way he never wound up glued to the toilet after filming those. and they cut it out because you don't show a guy shivering with diarrhea. but he wouldn't have wanted it shown for the ridiculous reason. he'd be worried that it would give ammunition to people who aren't his type. but he couldn't figure out was his type was, because everything conflicted internally. cheap or fancy? you can't do both, but he couldn't let either go. you can't eat with the president and still feel like a local dive patron. it probably enflamed an already-growing sense of identidy crisis and depression.
>>214706406well they are
>>214706002>>Talks about how shit America is in comparisonhe did a Detroit episode where he was a fucken snobby turbo costal kike the whole time.fuck him.
>>214707195Reminder that he left behind a 12 year old daughter
>>214707089his whole punk rock "authentic" attitude was just a mask to cover up some deep insecurities. when you understand that, he makes more sense. whether it makes you more sympathetic or not, that's up to you. also at the end of the day he was just an actor. he didn't write, direct or edit his shows, he just presented them. he had a crew that told him where to go, what to do, etc. he had some freedom in what he could say, but was also at the mercy of production and editing.
>>214707419Good point
>>214706002I like to think this picture sums him up. A six foot four man sits on filthy children’s outdoor furniture on a foreign dilapidated street that he wouldn’t dare venture into alone if it was in America, eating his slop with a pair of twigs and trying to convince the viewer that this is authentic shit that they should be doing, whilst a gook looks on and wonders what this fucking ogre is doing on his turf. At least the girl is wearing the gloves though. That’s a start.
Anthony Bourdain was a good man.
>>214707195nigga you do not need to post this in every single thread about bourdain
Couldn’t they at least splash out on some proper sized patio furniture so the big cunt can actually sit down properly?
He simply demonstrated the average Western person's attitude towards Russia.
>>214706348You are a very shitty chef, probably USAnian. All cuisine is derivative if you dig deep enough.>>214706741Blini were made in stone ovens spread thin and wide over the surface.Goddammit muttmericans are retarded. Please, don't you ever try to discuss culture again.
>>214706002I mean, part of the appeal of his show is the political/cultural/social commentary, which is what makes it interesting.If you want a purelly food related show go watch masterchef or something
>>214707784But he didn't do any social commentary in Shanghai
>>214706002i unironically have eaten in places like this and their food has tons of soul. these people do deserve the tip
>>214707807not taking a stance is still a stance.
>>214708064Lol
>>214706002He's literally a CIA propagandist, bro, what else did you expect?
You don't get it.Culture is brown people who eat retarded foul boiled food.
>>214706348>chef here
>>214706348There was a Chef's Table episode which talks about how Russian culinary traditions were raped (or whatever word you want to use, I'm saying they were raped) during the Soviet era and the young russian chefs working to revive them.
>>214708895>AHHHHHH THE NEGRONIS ARE COMING UP
>>214708208as a fence sitter he's right
>>214706002Reddit: the person
>>214706002I feel like his whole personality resolves around being insecure and trying to impress 20 years or more younger women with his virtue signalling. His fake "dude just enjoy life" maybe impressed normalfags, but anyone dealing one iota with depressed can see past the charade of "good vibes" as a coping mechanism.
>>214706002>what? my gf left me? Fuck this gay earth!
>>214706002have a CIA plant, have two
>>214706002Because Russia is an irredeemable shithole and China is doing at least something right?
>>214706002I hate bordain but russian food is literally peasant slop. it was regarded with the same respect as taking a piss. these peopled didn't eat rat knuckles because they wanted to
>>214709824Dr. Pavlova? I'm CIACIA
>>214706002Anthony BORE-RANGAnthony BORE-RANGAnthony BORE-RANG
>>214707195Hanging is painful and slow bruh,unless you press the carotid artery but I don't know how
No dude, he was a cool guy
>>214706002Anthony BORE-RANGAnthony BORE-RANG
>>214709824Based. Fuck that bland bourgeois faggot.Anthony BORE-RANG
>>214708244Another based mad lad.Fuck hook nosesFuck glowniggersFuck Anthony BORE-RANG
>>214706976>>214706982>>214706901>>214707272You are losing this war. You can cope all you want, but you can't maintain your hegemony. This place is a good example of your failure.Mutts belong to a chopping block.
>>214706002Is this Joeffry Epstein?
>>214710179You have no idea what Russian slop is about.Mun apple pie dumb faggot.
>Russians get mad when white people point out their country is a cultural wasteland only fit to produce meat for the meatgrinder
>>214709720good morning sirs :)
>>214707432she was a cutie, thanks for reminding me.
>>214710602>russian litterature>russian composersbesides you're probably a mutt
>>214706002People often shit on English food but Eastern European food is exponentially worse.Cabbage.Potatoes. Dirty water."Meat"Increase or decrease amounts to make every Eastern European dish in existence.
>>214710640200 years ago?
>>214710602>whitewas he though...?
>>214706002What russian culture? The culture of shoving shit with cocks in mans' assholes?
>>214710701Shalom
>>214706002Russian culture such as...?
>>214706002like all demoturds are
>>214706002Russian food isn't good.
>>214710719Homosexual activities in the army
>>214710719Some great music, art and historical sites.
>>214710752That would be the IDF, though...
>>214710757None of them made in the last 100 years. Let's face it, ever since the revolution Russia has been culturally dead.
>>214710780I mean that's longer than certain countries have existed.
>>214706940At the time russia was actively crushing its remaining civil society and counter cultures, while China was status quo. If he had gone around the time of tienanmen square he would have shit on china. But Chinese oppression wasnt current thing.
>>214707054>actually has some semblance of freedom of press.
Russia youth are defeatist and doomer, they know their country is shit but wont leave, chinese will chimpout and rage and move to America
>>214707621Everyone in this pic is dead now LOL
>>214707272Hey now, they did contribute good literature and music in the past. A lot of nations that wallow in misery do that. They just haven't in a long time.
>>214710602Balet?
>>214710719>russian culture doesn't exist because I don't like itAlways the same retarded take. Average normieniggers also say the same about US culture. Obviously culture exists in most places, expect when they actively destroy it like in cultural revolution in china, north korea and soviet times
>>214710640They've been dead for a long time and that period of immense output was greatly influenced by the monarchs forcibly introducing French and British literature.
>>214710939I notice you didn't answer the question.
>>214710971Ah, yes. they do that too btw. you have to give them a list which they just refute always the same>uh, that's not real culture>uh, ackchtually that originated from somewhere else>uhm, that's dumb haha look how stupid you areand so on. It's so transparent.
>>214706002he killed himself like a little bitch. He was just a regular hypocritical braindead demoturd. He's hopefully in hell right now
>>214711042Still haven't answered.
>>214710643this nigga got so mind-broken by a stew he had to deconstruct it.
>>214711058You can replace "russia" with any other country and it's always the same argument.
>>214711113No, I asked about Russia specifically.
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>eat local tonight>go somewhere new>talk to someone different>eat slowly>have a drink at 4pm>have another>learn jiu jitsu>have an open mind>be okay with yourself>take it easy>check in on your friends>abandon your wife and kid for an italian succubus>learn she cheated>off yourself
>>214707621I wonder how long it took them to convince the kids that Bourdain wasn't IDF
>>214707195>Female therapistNo seriously he should've had two
>>214707419>cheap or fancy? you can't do both,imho you can it's just appreciating different things for what they are. Go to a fine dining restaurant, enjoy the experience, the atmosphere the care taken or go to somewhere else that is unpretentious easy and simple. There's a Nigellia scene where she just froths over some good fish and chips.
>>214707195Eh? What about doctor-patient confidentiality?
>>214706348Retard, every food is derivative. Agriculture was invented in middle east. All the animals were domesticated in the middle east too.You think Italians invented tomatoes and grain, faggot?
>>214706866A libdart who praises commie china but not commie Russia?!
>>214710719lol,xoxol,lol
>>214706002HEY ANTHONY! IT'S TIME FOR YOUR MOGGING
>>214710660>>214710962you moved the goalpost so I accept your concessions both
>>214706348OPnigger BTFO
Good thing he's dead now.
