On Monday the 28th, the aired an episode of No Reservations that I was dreading. When Anthony was in the Fox, he was asked if he was coming to St. Louis. His response was that he was coming to the Ozarks. Now, as a St. Louis native, that would be like me saying that I am coming to New York and then skipping New York City and instead going to Mooers, which is a small town of less than 4,000 people. Missouri is filled with large cities and most people from either coast do tend to forget that there is a world of culture between those two coasts. St. Louis, is so much in the middle of everything that it was even considered to be the nation's capital.
Now, the Ozark area is home to what most of the world consider back-wood, backward, redneck or hillbilly. These people do exactly what is often thought of them: they drink, enjoy shooting their guns, like to go hunting and will eat things that most people would think as inedible. The episode started off with Tony learning how to dress a squirrel. Those little things don't look like they have much meat on them but he learns how to peel the fur off, chop the head and tail off and have it ready for cooking.
He then went fishing with one of his favorite authors, at night, and his favorite author slipped and dislocated his shoulder. Well, he was out of the show after that. There then was some duck hunting, raccoon hunting and then cooking everything. You had duck hunters who never tasted duck cooked properly which made it seem like the producers found the only duck hunters who didn't really like duck. Combine that with Bourdain going to a restaurant and eating chili on spaghetti and thinking it so strange.
As I said, earlier, covering a state by not going to any of the larger cities when he has already been to other large cities like New York, Boston, and even Chicago, makes me feel like he really does hate Missouri. What is sad is that there are people out there who think this way.
Now, the Ozark area is home to what most of the world consider back-wood, backward, redneck or hillbilly. These people do exactly what is often thought of them: they drink, enjoy shooting their guns, like to go hunting and will eat things that most people would think as inedible. The episode started off with Tony learning how to dress a squirrel. Those little things don't look like they have much meat on them but he learns how to peel the fur off, chop the head and tail off and have it ready for cooking.
He then went fishing with one of his favorite authors, at night, and his favorite author slipped and dislocated his shoulder. Well, he was out of the show after that. There then was some duck hunting, raccoon hunting and then cooking everything. You had duck hunters who never tasted duck cooked properly which made it seem like the producers found the only duck hunters who didn't really like duck. Combine that with Bourdain going to a restaurant and eating chili on spaghetti and thinking it so strange.
As I said, earlier, covering a state by not going to any of the larger cities when he has already been to other large cities like New York, Boston, and even Chicago, makes me feel like he really does hate Missouri. What is sad is that there are people out there who think this way.
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