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Anthony Bourdain is the Anti-Celeb chef. I've eaten at Les Halles in NYC and it is unfathomable. Alton Brown is a cool dude as well, but it's like comparing apples and oranges.



Bourdain has a show on the travel channel called No Reservations Required. In one episode he did in Texas he rode a BMW and did a rear wheel slide 180 like he knew what he was doing. But it's not just his motorcycling prowess over Brown that puts him above Alton. I just like the way he gets into food over Brown's more scientific approach. But then he's not a show and tell kind of TV Chef like Brown, so like you said...apples and oranges.

When I was in the service doing TDYs, I always tried the local cuisine ala Bourdain. In Cigli, Turkey it was the Mussels on a stick, In Rota, Spain it was the little sea snails they set on the bar as a snack in the same way we'd put out pretzels or peanuts. In Nairobi, Kenya it was a restaurant called The Carnivore where they had giants hunks of African game roasting on spits.