‘Finally,’ I thought when I first saw an episode of an Anthony Bourdain TV show.
Television food journalism has a reputation for phoniness and broadly has two very remote poles that shows are split between.
Some people want to keep their favourite little places secret, but Bourdain wanted to throw an arm around you and invite you in for shots.
Anthony Bourdain stood alone in the middle ground, neither taking the pretentious view that food is a work of art nor seeing it as some sort of ‘man fuel’.