Anthony Bourdain

Ever wonder who is cooking the food in the kitchens of America’s favorite restaurants? Anthony Bourdain answered this question in his article titled “Who Cooks?” Anthony Bourdain is a chef, writer and has been featured on some reality television shows. He discussed how the line cooks are not who most people think they are; they are not professionals but instead they are non-American men who cannot make it elsewhere according to his experience. Line cooking involves mindless repetition that not anyone can do and those with culinary vision or education are not these line cooks. According to Anthony Bourdain’s “Who Cooks?” those who cook the food in popular restaurants are visionless, uneducated, non-Americans (93-94). Line cooking “is not all…

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations - Sardinia All around the world, people have used food as a reason to gather or maybe gathering is a reason to for food. That is what Anthony Bourdain found during his show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations - Sardinia. Anthony Bourdain's show is about food and as he was introduced to the different kinds of foods in the regions of Sardinia, he realized that in Sardinia, everyone is considered family. At the ?? Festival, he discovered that the person sitting…

Anthony Bourdain was born on June 25, 1956 in New York and grew up in Leonia, New Jersey. He attended Vassar College for two years and graduated from the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America in 1978. Bourdain then moved back to New York, where he worked as a chef in several kitchens such as the Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue, and Sullivan’s and later became an executive chef at Brasserie Le Halles, French Bistro steakhouse in 1998. Bourdain’s career as a restaurant chef gave him…

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In this video, Anthony Bourdain goes to Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically, Ghana. I can see how he chose to live the full experience rather than finding information about it in the internet. Since the beginning, I could clearly see the difficulty of their lifestyle and how different our cultures are i.e., clothes, music, food, etc. Ghana serves as a great example for the rest Africa because it transformed from an oppressed country to one who lets people exercise democratic activities. Even though…

cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flow from heaven to the soul (Monet).” Feeling good was originally written in 1965, by Nina Simone. This song has been used in the popular culture such as, “Point of No Return” and “Six Feet Under”. A song cover was later done by Jennifer Hudson in 2011, and Lauryn Hill in 2015. Although Nina Simone wrote the song, Jennifer Hudson sang it better due to melody, rhythm, and instrumentation used in her…

Hammurabi’s code is composed of a set of rules set forth by a man named Hammurabi. He is known as Babylon’s most prominent ruler; his reign lasting from 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. Hammurabi’s Code reflects the harshness of the social structure in a Mesopotamian society by basing the code on the law of retaliation, not treating all members of the society equally and fairly, and not letting women be full members of the community. The law of retaliation, which is the basis of Hammurabi’s code, displays…

Censorship is a practice that is continuously used to shield people from reality- banning and suppressing speech that is considered “harmful” to others. Banned books have continuously played a significant role in our contemporary American culture- depicting both civil and ethical issues in our society. Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, and Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, were both novelists who produced books that fell victim to censorship, being banned for their artistic…

Antisocial Personality Disorder in A Clockwork Orange. Clockwork orange is a dystopian movie revolving around Alex, the main character and also the narrator. The movie starts with Alex and his group beating up an old man because they disliked how he sound while singing. As the movie progresses on you see a couple more scenes of violence. A particulary important scene is when Alex and his drooges invaded the Author's house and raped his wife. It's clear that Alex enjoys causing distress in other…

Clarice Starling, an agent of the FBI is with the help of another killer trying to save a woman from a psychopath. Throughout the movie, she undergoes series of transformational changes that eventually makes her develop the skills necessary to arrest and capture the killer. The paper explores some of the concepts of symbolism and metaphoric figurative techniques in the film. In the literal interpretation of Anthony Hopkins movie (1991), the Lambs are considered as beautiful, innocent, and…