Comments on: Bourdain a Hypocrite With a Chef’s Knife?

By: Bourdain’s Been Clipped « Cats Working

Bourdain’s Been Clipped « Cats Working — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:18:18 +0000

[...] blogger Natalie at Corn Commentary rips Bourdain a new one for the way he answered her question during his appearance in Columbus, Ohio, on [...]

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:21:42 +0000

I was at the Anthony Bourdain appearance in Columbus and feel a need to correct a few facts you misrepresented.

1) Mr. Bourdain spoke for 60 minutes and then took 60 minutes of questions. That’s a fairly generous evening for an author/celebrity talk.

2) The representative of the Corn association who asked a question was clearly female. Either the listed author is incorrectly identified as Mark or someone named Mark is representing second hand knowledge as witnessed observations.

3) Mr. Bourdain, when asked your leading question, said that he prefers a middle ground between whole foods high roaders like Pollan and Waters and your association promoting high fructose corn syrup.

4) Mr. Bourdain was 100% correct in disputing the assertion that HFCS and sugar are the same. They are not. HFCS is defined as liquid, sugar is solid. HFCS is made with chemical enzymatic processes, sugar is made by dehydrating and milling physical processes. HFCS has been linked to increased rates of obesity in comparison with sugar. Wikipedia and review of scientific journals corroborate these statements.

If you hope to be taken seriously, perhaps you should start with solid reporting.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:10:18 +0000

Bob–I proudly wear the name badge of Dolt as it was my story

Don–We are talking about field corn, mostly fed to livestock, not sweet corn. Sweet corn is only about 1 percent of then nation’s corn. It is very good at farm markets! Yum! Nice and naturally sweet.

By: BobT

BobT — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:41:38 +0000

I confess I’m entertained by Bourdain and often follow his steps when traveling to new places. But you nail him on the pandering point. “Dolt?” I’ve not thought of you that way Mark. Thanks for stepping up and asking the tough questions.

By: DonEWG

DonEWG — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:42:42 +0000

“farmers don’t delegate where their crops go”

Maybe heavily subsidized big grain operations that sell to agribussiness don’t know where their product goes, but there are plenty of farmers out there selling directly to local markets and restaurants.

By: Miss K

Miss K — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:13:38 +0000

I had to get out of it because to these people talking about food is as controversial as talking about religion. And they’re following the likes of Michael Pollan who is a journalism professor, not a scientist, veterinarian or a nutritionist. What has this world come to when these people are exalted as food gods??