Here is the link of Anthony Bourdain experiencing some Georgian culinary but as a Georgian I feel so upset about what places he was taken to and what he got-or did not get – to try and appreciate. I mean the guy had been all over the world so why would you make him mussels here in Georgia? Why would he meet with Tamara Chergoleishvili? Why going to Gabriadze cafe or some fancy ass restaurant in Signagi with some chicks who have no idea what this man was about?
Anthony Bourdain in Georgia
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You accuse others of not knowing what he was about but at the same time you act like it’s uncharacteristic for him to link up with someone whose Wikipedia article says she is a “politician and journalist, known for her liberal political views and advocacy of Euro-Atlantic integration, democratic governance, and resistance to oligarchic influence in Georgia”?
That’s a CV that’s tailor made to attract Bourdain’s interest lmao
A friend of mine who used to report for the Guardian, and was secretly a touch “right”, actually did know Bourdain in person (was very depressed for a few weeks after his willed departure) and was convinced that somebody tried to “get him” for being to open about his life and views. I think that was just the conspiracy theorist in him. Anthony apparently liked Georgian and Russian food and hated Indian and Chinese food. Nam food apparently his fave, but that was to please the public and sponsors, he actually liked only Italian and, weirdly (I mean, like really f***in’ weirdly), the Ploughman’s Lunch — a marvellously (or hideously) bland British classic.
His whole thing was avoiding the best restaurants in town for glekebi places so I don’t mind he went to random places, but yeah it was just plain weird the choices.
I haven’t watched it in a while but I remember him going to some family dinner where they were doing some performative thing serving small portions instead of supra style. I think they thought it was more Western or something? Or maybe him or producers insisting on avoiding any special treatment as a guest but if so there was a clear cultural gap around the whole idea of guests – that it isn’t some special Hollywood treatment and any random stranger gets the same, so the result was just a totally inauthentic experience.
Also I think he ate at Canudos at some point lol. I was a regular there back then and didn’t know they even made food, loved the place but unthinkable to go for the food I always felt like I’d get an STD touching a door handle.
The fact that parts unknown was a political show is an L. And his style of covering events is too poisony / sarcastic which is plain boring also. But cudos to him for actually exploring the world and food, communicating with different people.
> Why would he meet with Tamara Chergoleishvili?
Because she is knowledgeable and very entertaining as a character? Why would he not meet somebody like this?