AmConMag: Bourdain Vs. The Left by Rod Dreher

Anthony Bourdain on Rome

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Rome Essay

SJW whiners infesting Eater.com: Anthony Bourdain Says There’s ‘A Little Fascist’ in Us All by Tim Forster
Parts Unknown’s Rome episode gets political

Bourdain in Shanghai

Post by Anthony Bourdain.

4th Season Already?

Post by Anthony Bourdain.

The Chef

Post by Anthony Bourdain.

I've Never Eaten There

But I would like to when I visit LA next time. KoreAm: Michael Mann Shooting New Film in LA’s Koreatown

Related:
8 Things to Know about LA's Koreatown
Visit Koreatown
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Episode 2: Los Angeles

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Starts tonight:

The Last Episode of No Reservations

I hope his new show on CNN is as good.

Anthony Bourdain: Eat out and tip big to save NYC restaurants after Sandy
Anthony Bourdain Wants 'Bigger and Better' Version of 'No Reservations' at CNN

Kiroran Restaurant

in Sydney - Travel Channel. It's Uighur cuisine?

No More No Reservations

What! Just find out about this - slideshow.

Anthony Bourdain's 'No Reservations': Final Season Gets a Premiere Date





Anthony Bourdain on No Reservations, Foie Gras Not Cruel
Foie Gras: A Happy Animal is a Tasty Animal

Amanda Shaw in San Jose Next Weekend

For the San Jose Jazz Festival. Her website is gone. I wish I could be there, but I should be in NYC at that time.



More recent:




Misc: Anthony Bourdain's Favorite Fries

The MD is in town so I'll be spending much of the weekend with the kids.

Something with Anthony Bourdain:

Revealing More Than They Intended?

Compare the two commercials for Siri, one with Samuel Jackson, the other with Zooey Deschanel:





Of course Samuel Jackson is being his cool badass self, displaying shopping and cooking as manly activities. (The abundance of top-notch male chefs should have already make this clear.) He's independent and cooking (presumably) for a  lady friend. That act by itself could be beta, could be alpha. I suppose normal people would be intimidated by Jackson and wouldn't suggest that possibility in his presence. (Who's going to insinuate that he's cooking for a boyfriend in this commercial, either?)

Still, despite his independence he is willing to take the time to romance a lady friend and enjoy her company. Compare his commercial with that of Zooey Deschanel. How much "creative input" did she have? Would they dare show a woman cooking for herself? No, that would probably reinforce oppressive stereotypes! So what does she do instead? Acts like a consumer and orders out, while she stays at home (on a rainy day) and... reads? Cultivates the mind? She just lazes about in her pajamas, care-free, being her whimsical, "playful" self, dancing like a little (or an immature teenaged) girl. She doesn't need to take care of herself, because she has money and is therefore independent!

That's the consequence of feminism: an increase in consumerism under the guise of independence, while women fail to engage in anything serious, like having a family or children. While Samuel Jackson is married in real life, the viewer could accept the image of him as a successful bachelor taking time out for the ladies (but on his own terms). Zooey Deschanel doesn't even try to act like a man but ends up looking like a girl with an allowance who never grew up.

Who can take her website, Hello Giggles, seriously? Just another instance of feminism, despite whatever disagreements its contributors may have with other women-oriented websites and essays.

Related:
Some friends have read Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. It should make for a good leisurely read while on the plane.

Items of Interest, 14 May 2012

Doug Macgregor explains how our military reached its current state, so only desperate reform can save us
Seven predictions about our future. Most are unusual. All are certain to happen (I think)

Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream (original)


Why America is Doomed to One Disaster After Another

Michael Brendan Dougherty (Business Insider) and Daniel McCarthy (The American Conservative)


What are the Purposes of Foreign Policy

What Separation of Power? - nullification

American Burke by J. David Hoeveler
Irving Babbitt formulated conservatism for a world in whirl.

The Household Gods of Freedom

Christopher Lasch, Conservative?

Thomas Storck, The Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives

Jack Donovan, Mocking the Vote

Charles Hugh Smith, Acknowledging the Arrival of Peak Government

Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage

The Constitution Doesn't Settle the Marriage Debate

The President’s Still Contorted Position on Same-Sex Marriage by Carson Holloway

Hilton Kramer & the critical temper by Roger Kimball

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?

Economics and Energy:
What is Our Energy Future?

The Ten Cities Most Screwed by Peak Oil

Student Loans Weighing Down a Generation with Heavy Debt
The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps

Is It Possible To Build An Economy Without Jobs?

Wendell Berry on the Importance of Local, Sustainable Economies
Worth posting again.

Urban Design:
Won’t You Be My Neighbour?
Alexandra Singer on the future of urban planning

JHK on the CNU: Still Standing Amid the Wreckage




Catholic:
Remembering St. Josemaria Escriva
2012 Holds Multiple Anniversaries for Opus Dei
Preparing for June 26th (FB)
Video of May 5 Ordinations

Charity, War, and Peace in St. Thomas Aquinas by John Hittinger (pdf)

France celebrates Joan of Arc's 600th birthday

Filas 1: The Battle of the Sexes… can it be avoided? - soundcloud
Fr. Francis Filas, S.J.

Unlikely bedfellows (Jack Donovan and the pope)

No Doctrinal Obstacle for SSPX

English Is a Perfectly Fine Catholic Liturgical Language
My First Anglican Communion


I Can't Believe You Haven't Read KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER

TAC: The 2012 Commencement Address of Mother Assumpta Long
College Awards its Highest Honor to Three Recipients
slideshow

When Catholics Were Cristeros

History:
Justinian’s reconquest of the West : ideology, warfare, religion, and politics in sixth-century Byzantium (PDF)

Interview with Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England

Feminism:
A comment on "Reframing Christian Marriage"
The Ultimate Short Advice about Women
Suz says: About Submissive Women

Why Are Feminists Against the Male Pill

FDL Book Salon: The New Feminist Agenda

Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
Is there anyone TED won't feature?

Food, Diet and Health:
Taco Salad w/ Avocado & Cilantro Dressing

Wake Up, Food Television Execs! So Says Chris Cosentino.

New Potential Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods Found


Anthony Bourdain on Vegans



Music:
Steep Canyon Rangers Bring the Bluegrass to Slim's on Friday, May 4th


First Listen: Hilary Hahn and Hauschka, 'Silfra'

Katie Melua: Back from the Brink


Misc:
New Fashion Wrinkle: Stylishly Hiding the Gun

Hot Shots Episode 8 Clip - Clint Upchurch 3-Gun Training


Blue Force Gear is Growing

Anthony Bourdain on Letterman

Letterman Grills Bourdain About His Health, Food TV (Full episode)

Related:
Bourdain talks of tasty adventures
Christina Tosi Teaches Conan the Ways of Cereal Milk

Anthony Bourdain at Google

New Series: The Layover with Anthony Bourdain - Premieres 11/21 on Travel Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzaQGtIeAX0

More info.

Anthony Bourdain on Joe Rogan Experience

JRE #138 - Anthony Bourdain from Brian Redban on Vimeo.

Tim Ferris is featured in the previous episode.

More Items of Interest

Medievalists.net: Queen’s and Princesses’ Political Function at the end of the Middle Ages (14th and 15th Centuries)

There was a live webchat with Fr. Robert Barron today, on the occasion of the publication of his new book Catholicism. If an archived video becomes available, I will post it.

HanCinema: Chuseok and the Rise of Traditional Markets

Distributist Review: Labor Rights, Addendum

From crushing distance to opening space - a meditation on speed and local consciousness
by Clifford Dean Scholz (EB)

Visualizing a plenitude economy by Juliet Schor (EB)

New Dream Mini-Views: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy from Center for a New American Dream on Vimeo.

Marginalizing Marriage By Father John Flynn, LC
Why This Trend Threatens Society

Notre Dame: New chair endowed in Byzantine Theology

Chris Masterjohn, Gary Taubes on Cherry-Picking and Paradigm Shifts (A Brief Thought on Science)

Anthony Bourdain sounds off on the U.S. obesity epidemic


Counterpunch:
GARETH PORTER, The CIA and the Drones
DAVE LINDORFF, War Spending and Paul Krugman

SFEMS this weekend: About Catacoustic Consort and Wildcat Viols

Tim Ferris will be speaking in San Francisco on September 14. A profile in The New Yorker.

The season finale of No Reservations

website

Anthony Bourdain on Leonard Lopate: The Ten Best Quotes