As I wound down on my easy chair after a dinner of jam and chapatis (upset stomach you see, cant even have mom's daal) on a Thursday night, the same old hysteric dilemma hit me....what to watch on TV?
I surf through the channels and come accross what used to be my favorite for a while, and saw one of my many gurus do what he did best, eat food.
Anthony Bourdain was in full glory in Chile for the next 60 mins travelling in a Jaguar with a friend and having the eating of his life. There was a meat sandwich burger to start with, then sausages, then fried meat, then a platter of sea food, then some more meat and then some more sea food. My gastronomical demons had sent a war cry in the tummy as I saw Tony go through lanes after lanes of delicious looking food. The warm cheese melt burgers, the foot long hot dogs with guacamole layers and a plate full of golden brown french fries, and I cursed myself for having a dinner of chapati and jam.
You watch people like Anthony Bourdain eat, and you feel the joy they feel for the food. Great people have said that food is for life and life is not for food, but they have apparently never had a meal at the end of which the eyes close, there is a smug smile on your face and the stomach feels as if being caressed by the gods. Its not as much gluttony as it is searching god through food. I have always admired Anthony Bourdain because of the way he brings respect to the food that is being eaten any where on the earth, as if bringing truth to the fact that it is a sacred thing.
The more you watch his show, you start feeling the respect that is gestured to the people who make the food, the local flavours, the spices, the fruits, the vineyards, the bakeries and the small little shacks who take you to heaven. I have watched him in episodes where he has eaten the $1000 pizza in a swank restaurant in Manhattan, to the free evening snacks with the tribes in central Africa, its the same humble approach to food as it were and you feel obliged to appreaciate the good things in life you normally would not care.
It is one of the reasons why I am famous for my love of food of any kind. If food is there to be eaten, please EAT!! J
I surf through the channels and come accross what used to be my favorite for a while, and saw one of my many gurus do what he did best, eat food.
Anthony Bourdain was in full glory in Chile for the next 60 mins travelling in a Jaguar with a friend and having the eating of his life. There was a meat sandwich burger to start with, then sausages, then fried meat, then a platter of sea food, then some more meat and then some more sea food. My gastronomical demons had sent a war cry in the tummy as I saw Tony go through lanes after lanes of delicious looking food. The warm cheese melt burgers, the foot long hot dogs with guacamole layers and a plate full of golden brown french fries, and I cursed myself for having a dinner of chapati and jam.
You watch people like Anthony Bourdain eat, and you feel the joy they feel for the food. Great people have said that food is for life and life is not for food, but they have apparently never had a meal at the end of which the eyes close, there is a smug smile on your face and the stomach feels as if being caressed by the gods. Its not as much gluttony as it is searching god through food. I have always admired Anthony Bourdain because of the way he brings respect to the food that is being eaten any where on the earth, as if bringing truth to the fact that it is a sacred thing.
The more you watch his show, you start feeling the respect that is gestured to the people who make the food, the local flavours, the spices, the fruits, the vineyards, the bakeries and the small little shacks who take you to heaven. I have watched him in episodes where he has eaten the $1000 pizza in a swank restaurant in Manhattan, to the free evening snacks with the tribes in central Africa, its the same humble approach to food as it were and you feel obliged to appreaciate the good things in life you normally would not care.
It is one of the reasons why I am famous for my love of food of any kind. If food is there to be eaten, please EAT!! J
If you want to catch the show and discover your love of food, it is on TLC (Earlier Discovery Travel and Living) at 11 PM every Thursday.
The pics shown above are authentic Chilean and are from our reliable resource, The Google!
No comments:
Post a Comment