Bourdain to launch food show on radio

Bourdain to launch food show on radio

With a little help from Martha Stewart, Anthony Bourdain wants to expand America’s notion of food porn. Bourdain, the celebrity chef whose habit of slinging strong opinions and foul language has earned him a culinary bad-boy rap, next week launches a no-holds-barred satellite-radio program on Sirius XM’s Martha Stewart Living Radio.

Among his goals? See just how uncomfortable he can make co-host and friend Eric Ripert, chef at Le Bernardin in New York.

“We’re going to be doing a segment that we call food porn,” he said in a telephone interview, referring to the excessively sumptuous and sometimes sexualized words and photography often used in food media.

Today’s birthdays

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