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...LIPTON, SIZZLE AND STIR "When you cook," said commercials for this prefab meal kit, "you're a family." And what a family! In one of the spots, surreally cast with a potpourri of midlist celebs, "Mom" Sally Jessy Raphael and "Dad" Chuck Woolery fuss in the kitchen, while the "kids," squabbling over setting the table, turn out to be Pat Morita and Little Richard. Does that dinner mix come in tutti frutti...
Anthony Bourdain doesn't get to eat anything fun at home. "My wife is the most unimaginative eater ever. She doesn't even like tomatoes," he says. So Bourdain, 45, the chef who wrote 2000's restaurant tell-all, Kitchen Confidential, got himself a TV deal and book contract to travel around the world eating lamb testicles, duck embryo and a still-beating cobra heart ("like an aggressive oyster," he says). For this interview, he escapes from his Upper West Side apartment to a signless Japanese restaurant in the basement of a midtown Manhattan office building. He orders sea urchin...
...Lagasse and Bobby Flay, Bourdain will join them. Starting Jan. 8, at 10:30 p.m., he will appear on the network's 22-episode run of his half-hour travel show, A Cook's Tour, a companion to his book of the same name (Bloomsbury; $25.95; 274 pages). In Kitchen Confidential, which became a surprise best seller, Bourdain drew a super-testosteroned picture of the guys who make French fries--and served up insider's secrets, including why people should not order fish on Mondays. In A Cook's Tour he takes even less advisable gastroenterological risks as he searches...
Playing the role of the renegade rock-'n'-roll chef is going to get harder for Bourdain as his celebrity rises. David Fincher, the director of Fight Club, has optioned Kitchen Confidential for a film to be called Seared, and Brad Pitt may play the main character. Bourdain still maintains a position at the Manhattan brasserie Les Halles, where he is now executive chef, which means he shows up with a six-pack of Corona a few times a month and hangs out with the staff. He says he will never cook again; his knees are too shot...
...really enjoyed having a kitchen,” he said...