Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali take the Paramount Theatre stage in Seattle May 30 for a night of food banter. In an interview, Bourdain talks to The Seattle Times about all matters of food and writing.

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Anthony Bourdain [about Alton Brown and Good Eats]: It's an anomaly that his show is so informative. That's a pretty brainy show. I'm shocked that it's been on that long. Usually, anything remotely intelligent on the Food Network gets canceled.

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After spending years introducing television viewers to unusual eats from around the globe, culinary bad boy Anthony Bourdain is focused on a smaller - perhaps tougher - audience: his 19-month-old daughter.

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No. It's not a new series. And no. I'm not suffering from some kind of weird, late-in-life, delusional Arsenio-esque urges .

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Our friends at Eater San Francisco live-blogged the Golden Clog Awards. We are sure Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman were sufficiently inebriated (even in the daytime) to make the whole affair more than a little amusing. Some of the high-lowlights:

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Michael Ruhlman and Tony Bourdain have concocted The Golden Clog Awards (Ruhlman has previously announced as much on his blog), a quirky little awards event born out of "too many beers and late night yakitori," as Bourdain explained to Eater yesterday.

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No Reservations' fourth season will kick-off with a trip to one of Bourdain's favorite destinations -- Singapore -- as he shows viewers how it's a crossroads of various Asian cuisines; visits a "hospital chic" concept restaurant; and travels to a reflexologist for a traditional f …

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Food Network will reprise original series A Cook's Tour this December, it was announced today by Bob Tuschman, Senior Vice President, Programming and Production for Food Network.

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He likes it, he really likes it!

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Winners will be decided unilaterally and unscientifically by Messrs. Ruhlman and Bourdain at the prestigious Awards Ceremony, to be held at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival in February 2008.

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Anthony Bourdain, author, traveler, and host of Travel Channel's No Reservations, joins us this week for another round of Gadling's Talking Travel.

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Yes. Of course I watched NEXT FOOD NETWORK STAR.

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As the executive chef at Manhattan's Brasserie Les Halles since 1998, Anthony Bourdain heads a staff that puts out consistently good fare.

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The standing room only, overflow crowd at Borders at the Time Warner Center in New York was anxiously awaiting the on-stage arrival of their foodie heroes; Anthony Bourdain, Mario Batali, and Marco Pierre White, who was in America to promote his moving, fascinating, and very Brit …

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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.

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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 someth …

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Anthony Bourdain's recent blog rant, ostensibly about the Food Network's dearth of quality chef presenters, took square aim at the food celebrity personalities involved.

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Name: Anthony Bourdain Location: Last week, Patagonia. Next week, Singapore Occupation: Hell if I know What's your favorite comfort food?

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When Anthony Bourdain arrived on stage for a Saturday afternoon session at the Food Network's South Beach Wine & Food Festival, he was fittingly introduced as the "Howard Stern of the food world." In a sense, this is an acknowledgment that, like the Food Network celebrities …

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'Kitchen Confidential', the comedy that was on FOX last year for about a minute and a half is coming to DVD on May 22.

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I actually WATCH Food Network now and again, more often than not drawn in by the progressive horrors on screen. I find myself riveted by its awfulness, like watching a multi-car accident in slow motion.

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New Season of 'Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations'

New episodes of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations are now airing on Monday nights on the Travel Channel. Tony was trained at the Culinary Institute of America so this travel show often focusses on food and cooking.

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Mario Batali looked bigger than life last night, as he sat in a carved wooden throne taking punches from speaker after speaker at his celebrity roast at Capitale.

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Follow-up: Anthony Bourdain's Beirut

Beginning Day One - arrive in Beirut, prepared to make a lighthearted and enlightening show about a lesser known culture and cuisine. End Day One - Hezbollah kills seven Israeli soldiers and kidnaps two.

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In July 2006, Anthony Bourdain and his crew traveled to Lebanon to film an episode of No Reservations. They discovered a beautiful country filled with proud, generous people and delicious food.

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