Elyse Wanshel
Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain at the Miami Book Fair International Thursday night.
Although former junkie/gutter chef, Anthony Bourdain claims that his life is “all rainbows and unicorns” ever since the birth of his baby daughter, many of his random comments during last night’s “Evening With” talk with fellow chef Mario Batali still had lots of bite.
Here’s all the nasty bits:
According to Romania, Bourdain is linked to the KGB.
Big ladies with an appetite for
This man loves Mac's Club Deuce. (Reason No. 293 why we love this man.)
Better Than: Pounding cheap beers between a soul-crushing double on the saute station.
The evidence, plainly, is undeniable: the best-selling books, the top-rated Travel Channel Show, the Top Chef judging gigs. Hell, even the playbills posted outside the Arsht Center spell out the cold reality in cruel red letters: Anthony Bourdain is a celebrity chef.
But after spending a couple hours with the guy at the Arsht Center
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