Anthony Bourdain Watched the Food Network Awards

Anthony Bourdain watched the Food Network Awards.  I was just amazed and dumb-founded by that tidbit of information.  I couldn’t put myself through the pain of hearing the winner for “Best Appliance”….and that is no joke.  But, or course if he hadn’t watched it, we wouldn’t get to read his eloquent smack-down of a horrible idea gone horribly wrong.

It appears that the awards show was merely a infomercial for product placement.  It was so awful that Anthony Bourdain actually felt sorry for Rachael Ray!!  Bourdain wrote:

It is a measure of how seriously crack-brained, rapacious and evil the Deep Thinkers at Food Network must be that I find myself–yet again–in deep sympathy with their stable of stars. Last night, during the breathtakingly awful, interminable cruelty that was The Food Network Awards, I even found myself feeling bad for Rachael Ray. YES, friends. Rachael Ray. If nothing else, Rachael’s BIG now. Network talk show– doing- well- in- ratings- Big. Own magazine Big. Friend-of-Oprah Big. So, how must it have felt for her to stand up there in front of what appeared to be a halfway empty room of stunned, near comatose trout and feign enthusiasm while presenting the award for “Best Appliance”?

The man may appear an angry, chain smoking big-mouth…but that is his charm, and sometimes the truth needs to be told.

You must click here to read the rest of his Food Network Awards Night rant.

(Above picture from photo journal No Reservations on TLC.)