After hauling furniture around all afternoon, we went to see Anthony Bourdain speaking at DPAC tonight. Our first time there. Very nice. Bourdain was fun and about what I expected -- two hours of Bourdain being Bourdain. If you compare tonight's performance to his books it was much more Nasty Bits than Kitchen Confidential. Lots of riffing on Food Network and stories from his time spent making No Reservations and a few more thoughtful takes on the importance of travel, organics, slow food, etc. The fanboys and fangirls were a bit off-putting (standing ovation when he came out, applauding too much of the damn time). Reminded me a bit of seeing Rollins monologue back in the late 90s. Q&A at the end had questions from the audience selected and read by local radio guy Frank Stasio. Either the questions weren't all that good or Stasio's picks just weren't to my liking. He selected one about Rachael Ray, whom Bourdain had pretty much said everything he had to say about already. Another question about the whole Alice Waters, victory garden, locavore, high-end organics kerfuffle would've been nice. Still, it was a fun night out.
During his talk, Bourdain urged us all to go home and google "Sandra Lee Kwanzaa Cake". It does not disappoint.