Bourdain, on SoBe, Makes Nice with his Enemies (or Vice Versa)
Anthony Bourdain filed three posts from the South Beach Wine & Food Festival over the weekend. They were great reading, of course, but also contained several bits of… well, there’s no other way to put it… alarming kindness shown to culinary enemies.
It’s been a confusing weekend on the beach. My Saturday event was a roaring, enthusiastically belligerent success–yet … I feel, I dunno, diminished and drained by the whole sordid enterprise. Maybe I’m just not angry anymore. I tell you, it shakes you to the core when people you’ve been insulting for years–at every opportunity–are decent to you.
In the last three, up-is-down and down-is-up days Rocco Di Spirito bailed me out, Emeril Lagasse generously fed me, Jamie Oliver talked child rearing with me for hours. Cat Cora was civil and … drum roll please … Rachael Ray was unfailingly polite. I fear I might even have hurt her feelings.
If one’s 50s are the second stage of life (after the LiLo and Paris stage) where some people start to make frenemies, my hope of hopes is that Bourdain avoids it like he avoids a mouthful of iguana.
More on SoBe from Bourdain here, here, and here. Full list of “personalities” who attended SoBe F&W here.
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