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Originally posted by yeaheveryone:
which is it bourdain? does great food come from real people, real neighborhoods, and real kitchens, or does it come from super expensive fancy-dandy chefs whose restaurants could be anywhere?

so spain has some great chefs...so what???? so does bahrain. that doesn't make it the center of great food. bourdain has lied about everything he claims to believe in. he's contradicted himself in the worse way, and he's obviously trying to stick it to the french elite. spain, and thomas keller, are his way of getting back at the top french chefs who never truly accepted him while he was a chef.

and this spain show was just lame. canned sardines are NOT the best seafood in the world. i lived in spain for a long time. i ate the same canned seafood. it's a joke. i grew up 3 blocks from a fish market and ate seafood fresh from the boats. spain's seafood is mediocre when it's at its best.

spain's food is oily, bland, and repetitive, and so is this show. what will you find if you spend time in spain? pork, ham, olive oil, bacon cooked in olive oil, more ham, some cerdo, accompanied by puerco, doused in oil. pretty much it. tapas are sometimes pretty good. but just that. nothing too amazing (and free tapas is usually poor quality).

go to the average cafe in france, and the average cafe in spain, repeat for a few years and then decide who has better food. bourdain has a personal agenda he's trying to cram down our necks, and anyone who buys this is a fool.