Bourdain and Ripert  Went to see Anthony Bourdain and Eric
Ripert Sunday with my dear friend Julie Powers and had a blast.
It was a very entertaining show that consisted of the two of
them interrogating and making fun of one another for the first
hour or so, then taking questions from the audience.  There were
lots of classic Bourdain lines. Someone asked them if they could
choose only one country to eat in for the rest of their lives,
what country they would choose. Both of them said Japan.
Bourdain added, “The thing that makes their porn so disturbing
is also what makes their food so great — attention to detail.”
And when asked who he would most like to smoke pot with, he
said, “Dick Cheney — while I’m waterboarding him.”  When Ripert
was doing his interrogation of Bourdain, he brought up an
incident in Africa when Bourdain went wild boar hunting with a
tribe. When they slaughtered the animal, they brought him the
rectum of the animal, telling him that it was the most prized
part and, as their honored guest