How do you feel about these Celebrity Chefs?!
There are a few anti-vegetarian chefs out there right now.
Anthony Bourdain has said this about Vegetarians and Vegans:
“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demiglace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.” -Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Kithen Confidential’
Anthony Bourdain comparing vegans to a violent terrorist organization is disconcerting to me.
Gordon Ramsay once made a pizza for a vegetarian guy and hid Pepperoni under the cheese. When the man found out about the hidden meat he was upset and traumatized and Ramsay laughed at him and told him to get out of his face.
Do you think Celebrity Chefs are propelling veg*n stereotypes or is it just plain mocking?
Answers: Celebrity chefs and cooking shows are all over the television these days from the Food Network to the Travel Channel to Local Stations.
There are a few anti-vegetarian chefs out there right now.
Anthony Bourdain has said this about Vegetarians and Vegans:
“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demiglace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.” -Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Kithen Confidential’
Anthony Bourdain comparing vegans to a violent terrorist organization is disconcerting to me.
Gordon Ramsay once made a pizza for a vegetarian guy and hid Pepperoni under the cheese. When the man found out about the hidden meat he was upset and traumatized and Ramsay laughed at him and told him to get out of his face.
Do you think Celebrity Chefs are propelling veg*n stereotypes or is it just plain mocking?
Wow. That's pretty sad.
You would think that Bourdain, being as well-traveled as he is, would respect the lifestyle choices of everyone.
Ramsay, well, he's just a piece of work all the way around. There's not much that he likes and probably doesn't even like himself.
At any rate, I honestly don't pay much attention to popular chefs. Most of them are meat-wielding ego maniacs. If they had any form of conscience, they wouldn't prepare all of those high-fat, high-cholesterol meals that are killing countless Americans at the speed of light.
I used to watch the average cooking show on the Food Network just to see if certain recipes were semi-tasty and could be modified into vegan meals, but I even stopped doing that. Rachael Ray loves to cook with veal. I have no tolerance for that. I've heard others make fun of their "vegetarian friends".
They are mocking and also perpetuating stereotypes. As so-called food connoisseurs, they ought to know better and ought to learn how to respect the lifestyle preferences of everyone.
I think they just don't understand what we stand for.. They work with meat all day everyday.. they really can't imagine life without it.. and i respect that.. however, i believe i am doing the right thing like they think they are.. so such is life.. and if Ramsay hid some meat in my pizza.. i would probably laugh it off.. just because they think we are so stuck up..
i love anthony bourdain. he's got a biting sense of humor. he loves and enjoys everything about food (including meat, obviously) so of course he's not going to understand vegetarianism and he makes no bones about it.
i do think gordon ramsay went over the line. you shouldn't force feed/trick people into eating something they have no desire to eat.
Ouch, this sounds like those 2 are a bit sick in the brain or something! Probably too much after-show champagner? Creepy.
Sounds also kinda like somebody cannot face the fact that meat eaters are decreasing, because so many people get sick from meat, eggs or dairy.
I think that those chef's are scared. They don't have enough creativity to not use meat. So I really think they are just intimidated. Not all chef's feel that way so it is a misrepresentation.
I have eaten and many fine dining restaurants where the chef was excited to show off his ability to cook an awesome vegan meal. On a cruise the other guests wished they could have had my food it was that good! I thought it was going to be a challenge to eat vegan in New Orleans but was pleasantly surprised. They were some of the best meals I've had. One chef had a vegan girlfriend and made me a delicious dinner.
There just isn't much common ground between these chefs and the vegans. There are many countries in the world where being a vegetarian just means no meat, but meat broth is fine.
If you look at Antony Bourdain, he simply LOVES meat products. I've seen him eat pickled pork fat in Italy and freshly killed bunnies in Argentina.
And we meat eaters get plenty of flack from the veggie folk. I was simply appalled when I was cooking some meat and these vegans were going EWW GROSS--MEAT! and I though it was not just disrespectful to me, but to the animal who had died and I was about to eat.
I hate gordon ramsey, he always slagging off vegetarians. I was so happy when the animal activists in the UK dumped horse poo on his doorstep because he was using horse meat in his recipe. This is the man who slaughters his lambs live on television..
Don't know much about Anthony Bourdain but he sounds as ignorant as Gordon Ramsey.. I think they are both mocking and propelling vege/vegan stereotypes again due to their ignorance.
It sounds like they have wonderful programs. I have to check and see if we get those channels.
I think that these chefs you mentioned behaved very tactlessly, and more in the manner of teenage pranksters than that of supposedly grown men.
We cannot force other people to believe what we believe. What they do is up to them, just as we feel that we are responsible for the choices we ourselves make.
When I must dine out in a mainstream restaurant, I prefer to make as little fuss or call as little attention to my dietary preferences as possible. It is easy enough for me to order a salad and just say that I am on a diet (yes, well, I am -- a raw vegan diet-- but I do not need to give details.)
I would not give the chefs you mention another moment of my time, as they are nothing I am interested in, and do not cook anything I want.
I am more interested in people like Charlie Trotter who experiment with new ideas to find new ways to better serve their restaurant guests. Although not raw, Trotter went to the trouble to devise enough delicious and reasonably easy to make recipes to publish a substantial cookbook on raw vegan food.