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post #46 of 57
6/19/10 at 9:54pm
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You're from Lowell? I lived there for a while, before moving to Winchester, interesting place.


No i live about an hour away, just went there for the night to see the event.
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post #47 of 57
6/22/10 at 2:28am
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Kitchens are men dominated, and women don't usually reach the rank of Chef because of discrimination, and all the sexual harassment from the male staff. I've worked under two female Chefs, and they were tough as nails, because they had to be to survive in the industry.

Sorry, but to me a Chef, or being a cook is just a regular job, and nothing badass about it. I just don't see Navy SEAL, and a Chef being in the same bad ass category.

Not in the world of B-rated Steven Seagal movies ...

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post #48 of 57
6/22/10 at 3:05am
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Not in the world of B-rated Steven Seagal movies ... Reaffirms my belief... Gary Busey calls Steven Seagal a faggot for being a cook.
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post #49 of 57
6/22/10 at 2:09pm
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Reaffirms my belief... Gary Busey calls Steven Seagal a faggot for being a cook.

when your self-esteem hinges on a gary busey quote from a steven seagal movie, you really need to rethink your entire life, like maybe from sixth grade up.
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post #50 of 57
6/22/10 at 2:13pm
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The whole chef as a bad ass thing is kind of lame... like when classical musicians in a desperate attempt to sell albums and broaden their appeal to crossover rock, or even worse, hip hop style music.

Are great chefs bad asses in the sense that they have worked incredibly hard, posses considerable skill and even had to overcome big obstacles to reach their goals? Yes. But not bad asses like the dudes on Deadliest Catch or like... an SAS guy. In fact, most of them are pretty nerdy. If you ever meet people like Ducasse, Robuchon, or Keller, you'll notice this.

I think Bourdain is full of shit.

+1. reminds me of the artists of the 50's who would try to be badass and get into fights and so on.

not that there aren't basass chefs (I don't think that I woud send something Grayland cooked back to the kitchen) but Bourdain is silly, a real poser. also, I think that he misses a lot of the best food in the places he travels too. and he has producers do all the hard work for him.
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post #51 of 57
6/22/10 at 2:29pm
I can see the point being made here. I am also annoyed by so many new chefs that are now heavily covered in tattoos and piercings. Everyone wants to be perceived as a rockstar/badass. I think calling Bourdain a poser is a little overboard because I also think a lot of what he says and does is in jest. I find him entertaining most of the time.
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post #52 of 57
6/22/10 at 8:44pm
The one I really, really love is when chefs refer to themselves as "Punk rock". There's a number of them out there, and if you grew up listening to the Sex Pistols or the Ramones, there is absolutely nothing whatsoever that is even remotely punk rock about food. Not even fake bullshit punk rock like that good charlotte or whatever it is these days. I have made fun of a few of my friends for this, all of whom who are fantastic chefs. There's a few very famous ones as well, covered in tatoos and when I see them bent over arranging a pile of dressed micro greens and spraying coconut foam over some seared halibut I laugh and am like... right buddy... Johnny Rotten is shitting himself right now. You're the antichrist he was talking about.
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post #53 of 57
6/22/10 at 9:49pm
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when I see them bent over arranging a pile of dressed micro greens and spraying coconut foam over some seared halibut I laugh and am like... right buddy... Johnny Rotten is shitting himself right now. You're the antichrist he was talking about.

that's true! maybe what Hombre is picking up is more of a class thing than a sex thing. take a kid whose mom and dad just spent $40,000 sending him to cia for a couple of years and put him in a kitchen where he's working alongside guys who swam the rio grande (and sometimes, making less money than they are), and there's the need to be "hard," even when you're tweezering microgreens. very funny.
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post #54 of 57
6/22/10 at 10:03pm
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that's true! maybe what Hombre is picking up is more of a class thing than a sex thing. take a kid whose mom and dad just spent $40,000 sending him to cia for a couple of years and put him in a kitchen where he's working alongside guys who swam the rio grande (and sometimes, making less money than they are), and there's the need to be "hard," even when you're tweezering microgreens. very funny.

But if you spent your own $40k for a culinary school education, that makes you a total badass right? Cause.... I think it does.
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post #55 of 57
6/22/10 at 10:18pm
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But if you spent your own $40k for a culinary school education, that makes you a total badass right? Cause.... I think it does.
Sounds dumb.
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post #56 of 57
6/22/10 at 10:22pm
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Sounds dumb.

So does fishing.


BTW, I really don't know if you fish or not. But I know that Vanna made fun of you for fishing, and in his honor and memory, I shall continue that tradition.

Oh, BTW #2. I got caught by DNR a few weeks ago fishing without my license. The officer was really nice and told me that he'd only write me up for not having my license on the water with me... instead of a misdemeanor, I only owe a few hundred bucks.
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post #57 of 57
6/22/10 at 10:26pm
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But if you spent your own $40k for a culinary school education, that makes you a total badass right? Cause.... I think it does.
In a way funding your own education and making your way out of a place to practice a craft that isn't very highly valued where you are from gives you some of the characteristics of a "bad ass", namely balls and perseverance. Still not quite there though. Food Guy, I know what you mean but that isn't unique to cooking. You're then essentially talking about any industry that isn't one of the white collar professions. It's likely that your plumber will have similar credentials, or a bar tender, or a landscaper. Mentally I think most cooks are somewhat tough as compared to most trades but still not enough to distinguish it from others, or to be compared to a miner or a big game fisherman.
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