New Orleans on "No Reservations" tonite

[ajl_mo]

Anthony Bourdain is visiting NOLA tonight on his Travel Channel show. Previews have him with Emeril Lagasse, which kinda surprising considering some of the crappy things Bourdain has written about Lagasse.

Should be interesting.

http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Anthony_Bourdain

[kapeman]

Very touching interview with Chris Rose, too. Well worth seeing.

[Carolina Beadhead]

I 2nd that, kapeman. Excellent job.

[mamaroux]

It's supposed to replay on Tuesday Night at 8pm eastern, so I'll catch it then, but my daughter TIVO'd it for me

[Carolina Beadhead]

It's also replaying right now...

[mamaroux]

how much did I miss??? I've got to go back downstairs and make the mini muff's for tomorrow's lunch... and get the king cakes out of the freezer...

[glinda]

Watchin now. Missed the first 15 minutes. Now they're at Cafe Reconcile. Cool.

[Ludlows23]

I caught by accident last night - I just happened to have the Travel Channel on when I finished watching something else on my Tivo - so I was able to rewind. I am rarely on that Channel and I never watch Anthony's shows - so I consider it a special kind of NOLA magic that let me tune in last night. I thought it was a great & well balanced show.

[redfish2]

Thanks for the tip on this, I really enjoyed watching this show.

[Zbonnie]

Jax, thanks for the tip that it was re-running last night. I don't usually watch Tony Bourdain's shows or Travel Channel, but I did enjoy watching the show and thought it was good publicity to get people back to NOLA. I liked his last (cocky as always) line, something like - "I came back (or I'm here), what are you waiting for?"

[rosetree]

I really liked the show...caught it last night too.
He didn't sugar-coat it, said we still needed a lot of help here, but he said that we are trying real hard and people should come down and support us.
I also liked the last line!!!
Chris Rose was fantastic. I want one of those off the menu sammiches @ Domilise's. :D

His apology to Emirile was pretty good too...now he'll just talk crap about Rachel Ray..LOL

[Cleophus]

Thanks for the heads-up on this -- I'm glad I watched it!
Bummed me out in parts, especially seeing the St. Roch Market still boarded up. But pretty uplifting (especially the Cafe Reconcile bit).

[The Dude]

Coming back to the Big Easy in March with a few that have never been to New Orleans (coming for 311 day). First stop is going to be Domilise's. I love their shrimp po boys...but damn I'm gonna have to order that "Off the menu" po boy as well!!!

[LisaRI]

I don't usually like/ watch this show but tuned in after reading about it here,so thanks! I especially liked the Cafe reconcile part, and the comedian/bartender was interesting. btw what's AB got against Emeril?

[rosetree]

I don't usually like/ watch this show but tuned in after reading about it here,so thanks! I especially liked the Cafe reconcile part, and the comedian/bartender was interesting. btw what's AB got against Emeril?

Here's a quote from the T/P article about the show Lisa.....

"In fact, in the introduction to "Kitchen Confidential," Bourdain wrote (not so prophetically), "My naked contempt for vegetarians, sauce-on-siders, the 'lactose intolerant' and the cooking of the Ewok-like Emeril Lagasse is not going to get me my own show on the Food Network."

"I was a working line cook when I wrote 'Kitchen Confidential,' " Bourdain said. "Emeril was a striking example of the celebrity chef for whom I had no understanding at all. His show would look like another world to me. It was not the life I was living. He's friendly and outgoing and happy to have civilians around. These were not the chefs I knew.

"In the intervening years, I know what it's like to be on television now. I know what it's like to be famous. But I think most significantly, I've come to recognize and appreciate Emeril. Whatever you say about him, whatever you feel about the show, he is a real chef.

"Compared to the knuckleheads and home-grown personalities they're putting on the Food Network these days . . . (who) are famous for nothing, I appreciate the guy for his accomplishments as a chef and as a businessman and even as a guy who's made thousands of TV shows. I've got respect for that.

"The Food Network at the time was a new phenomenon, and that was just not my world. And my sense of outrage and dislocation (made) Emeril an easy target. He pretty much created the genre of the TV chef.

"Now, it's the food 'personalities' that rule, and guys like Emeril, who built that network and actually put in their time to become chefs, they don't want around any more. That's not the business model over there anymore. I said somewhere that compared to what they've got going on now, he looks like (fabled French chef Georges) Escoffier.

"Off TV, I like the guy. He's very gracious."

[swag]

Recorded it yesterday, just watched it now. Well done, Ithought.

I wonder if Bourdain has ever had to put a parental advisory on any off his other episodes... :(

[mamaroux]

Jax, thanks for the tip that it was re-running last night. I don't usually watch Tony Bourdain's shows or Travel Channel, but I did enjoy watching the show and thought it was good publicity to get people back to NOLA. I liked his last (cocky as always) line, something like - "I came back (or I'm here), what are you waiting for?"

I didn't get to see it on the repeat because the son was here and took us out to dinner... how can you refuse that, ya know? We'll go over to Delaware tomorrow night to see the bebe and my daughter was supposed to have TIVO'd it for me, so I'll watch it then... hope she didn't forget!

[McGregor]

looking forward to seeing this
Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations in Cajun Country
So, last month Bourdain and Co. were in SW Louisiana filming an episode of No Reservations.

From what I've been able to piece together, they started in New Orleans, filming at Boucherie with Treme's Wendell Pierce. As some of you may or may not know, Bourdain is a writer with Treme, scripting the restaurant scenes with Jannette set in New York.

From there, they came west to Lafayette, shooting at a few local restaurants: Tsunami Sushi, The French Press, and Jolie's Louisiana Bistro (my new favorite restaurant of all time).

They also made a stop at an unknown location in Breaux Bridge, before ending up in Eunice, at the headquarters of Valcour records (also known as Joel Savoy's house). The former Red Stick Ramblers frontman's rural home was the setting for an intimate night of food and music, featuring wood duck in gravy prepared by Linzay Young of the Red Stick Ramblers. Toby Rodriguez cooked a turtle sauce piquante and Kelly Pitre cooked a traditional crawfish bisque. And of course there was plenty of music provided by local Cajun musicians.

The following day Tony and his crew were treated to a traditional boucherie (pig butchering) at Lakeview Park where as he was the guest of honor, he dispatched the pig himself. Friends and family made cracklins, boudin, back bone stew, bbq, and hog head cheese. Valcour’s own, Lucius Fontenot made the hog head cheese to which Anthony Bourdain said, “if you made this on Top Chef, you would win.”

Also there enjoying the boucherie was David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme. He enjoyed all the pork goodies and jammed with Joel Savoy, Ryan Brunet, Chris Segura and others all day long.

The episode should air on the Travel Channel in late August, so keep your eyes peeled for it.
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[lalocaleanne]

What a coincidence that I saw this show for the first time last night too, here in Oz. They were in Saudi Arabia and I thought it was very interesting. I'll definately keep my eye out for this episode, although we're probably about 2 seasons behind over here :(