Nice Grouper, honey!

Ok, actually I do not know if that is a grouper, but all bets are off, considering  that the man holding the fish is supposed to be Anthony Bourdain. Excuse me, Jack Bourdain:
Once celebrated chef Jack Bourdain who was exiled from the prestigious restaurant business is offered an opportunity to get back in the game as a head chef at a top New York restaurant. This new half-hour comedy based on renouned chef Anthony Bourdain’s best-selling autobiography KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL premieres on FOX
You can watch a clip here, if you are feeling brave. The premise in more detail from those lying liars at Fox:    

Based on renowned chef Anthony Bourdain’s best-selling autobiography, KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL explores the deliciously crazy world of upscale restaurants. Chef JACK BOURDAIN (Bradley Cooper, “Alias,” “I Want to Marry Ryan Banks”) found enormous success at a young age, but his culinary genius also led to a lifestyle of boozing, womanizing and drugs. After hitting rock bottom and deciding to sober up, the only job he could get was slopping soggy pasta for the masses at a tacky opera-themed restaurant. Out of the blue, Jack is offered an opportunity to get back in the game as head chef at a top New York restaurant. There’s just one problem: the owner gives Jack a mere 48 hours to fully staff his kitchen and prepare to dazzle over 300 customers – including the food critic for the New York Times (who also happens to be a jilted ex). Jack hastily assembles a renegade crew of colleagues from his past, including chefs STEVEN DAEDALUS (Owain Yeoman, “Troy”), SETH KLEIN (Nicholas Brendon, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) and TEDDY WONG (John Cho, “Harold & Kumar”). Also along for the ride are TANYA (Jaime King, “White Chicks,” “ Pearl Harbor”) the hostess, a rookie pastry chef named JIM (John F. Daley, “Freaks and Geeks”), and the owner’s daughter, the gorgeous MIMI (Bonnie Somerville, “NYPD Blue”), who can’t wait for Jack to fail. In KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, executive producers Darren Star (“Sex and the City”) and David Hemingson (“Just Shoot Me,” AMERICAN DAD) expose the secrets of the restaurant business through the delectable story of a talented chef who’s determined to climb back to the top of the food game.

Delectable. Surprising that sitcom-Tony, I mean Jack, is not also a boxer or Navy SEAL or something.  Also, this cast they seem to have found at the bus station, or in old copies of one of the less gay iterations of Details. But most of all, is there any good reason to name the guy from Troy "Steven Daedalus"? TV scriptwriters:  we are sorry that you have to live in Los Angeles, get paid lots of money to realize the quasi masturbatory fictionalization of a self-aggrandizing (albeit entertaining) memoir. We know that you have a soul, even if you keep up the payments on that Boxter writing gags about how the Chinese invented pasta. We honor you--we  believe that you went to college, and you do not have to boost character names from James Joyce to prove it. Thanks to the lovely and talented  Muse, via her "friend" who is the one trawls Buffy  fansites, which is where this nugget came from.

 

Comments

[alizinha]

I also just LOVE the fact that are no Mexican or Salvadoran cooks in the kitchen. How realistic.

["friend"]

yup, I trawl the Buffy AND Charmed sites in order to dredge up information about Alizinha's boyfriend Anthony Bourdain! If only I had a cubicle job that let me wank off and work on my 'blog all day... xoxo p.s. I wonder if Fox will show all the "NYC" chefs gacked out of their minds? I wonder if the writers even READ his book?

[max]

It's also surprising that the real Jack, I mean Tony, is not a Navy SEAL.

I wish they called the restaurant DUMBBO instead of NOLITA.