Stroke the Chefs / @!$%# the Cooks

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:04 PM EDT

Article Source: blog.Ruhlman.com

entertainment, food, cooking, awards, anthony-bourdain, bourdain, tony-bourdain, celebrity-chefs, james-beard-foundation

Seeded by Michael Sautter

You'd think after the damage done by their recently convicted former president, the questions raised about their whole purpose, and the nauseating revelations of how little money the James Beard Foundation were actually raising for scholarships, that they'd maybe learned something. That they'd adapted, moved on, become more sensitive to the widely held perception that they are in fact, nothing more than a private dining society, a high-rent memorial to a much disliked crank who--once a year, throws a lavish stroke-and-choke where corporate sponsors can "honor" prominent chefs and restaurant folk at what remains--for better or worse--the "Oscars of food" ceremony.

Apparently, you'd be wrong.

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Michael Sautter

I never thought much about the James Beard Foundation. All I know is that Julia Child help start it after her friend James Beard, a chef and food writer, died. I always assumed the JBF had the usual amount of chef-attitude. I didn't realize it was turned up a notch or two.

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#1 - Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:23 PM EDT

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Michael Sautter

Note: the above seed/tirade about the James Beard Foundation is by Anthony Bourdain. I didn't realize this at first, but all of the F-bombs should have tipped me off.

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2 votes

#2 - Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:54 PM EDT

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Eric Atienza

Stroke the Chefs / @!$%# the Cooks

I thought the article was someone revealing my plan to get free meals at restaurants.

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3 votes

#3 - Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:00 PM EDT

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lauhal

FOOD PORN!!

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3 votes

#4 - Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:34 PM EDT

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MCLiepshutz

I freekin love Anthony Bourdain. He is the one celeb chef who plays it the way it is. And he knows where the weight is carried.. not on the clipboards of pencil pushers.. but on the backs of the cooks. If Tony said it, I would hold it as the gospel truth.

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3 votes

#5 - Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:22 AM EDT

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